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Kyle Burton writes:
> 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.
You also might want to install anacron. I'm not sure where you'll
find the source, but it's a Debian package.
- Kurt
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