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After toying with my redhat box -- a laptop that gets started/shutdown on
a daily basis (it's never been up for more than a day at a time), I
was seeking the systems help with the 'man -k', whatis, and apropos
commands.
Normally, the whatis database is built weekly by a cron script (I noticed
the script while writing the earlier email regardding log rotation), but
on my systems, since I reboot them so frequently, it never got built.
So the help commands I mentioned above never had a database to search
through.
For those of you in the same boat as myself (systems with artificialy short
uptimes), it might be of use to manually run the /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis
script once in a while so you have these [very convienient] help features
available to you.
just a thought...
k
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