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The same thing with updatedb very helpful.
--
-Rune
Einsteins theory of Relativity mean that no matter what direction you go
in life you have a relative that has a theory...
In the Depths of the minds of the insane Fantasy and Reality are the
same...
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Kyle Burton wrote:
:Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:51:56 -0400 (EDT)
:From: Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>
:Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:To: PLUG - Philadelphia Area Linux Users Group <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
:Subject: [Plug] getting help
:
: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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