Kurt D. Starsinic on Thu, 2 Sep 1999 15:37:29 -0400 (EDT)


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[Plug] getting help


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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