Re: apropos/whatis
> > > hey, nobody problems with mandb? could someone else PLEASE try?
> > > (and respond?)
> > Umm, sorry... Yes, I seem to have related problems. Basically,
> > "man something" waits for a couple of seconds and then displays
> > the correct man page. "apropos" and friends wait for the same
> > amount of seconds and then say "nothing appropriate". Trying to
> > rebuild the man db doesn't work.
the problem seems to be mandb, which end in an error (see strace
output of my last mail). is someone working on that?
> Hrm. "apropos" on my machine (XL300) gives:
> aragon:~# apropos hosts_access
> apropos: unimplemented OSF mmap flags 0202
> apropos: unimplemented OSF mmap flags 0202
> hosts_access (3) - access control library
> hosts_access (5) - format of host access control files
> apropos: unimplemented OSF mmap flags 0202
> aragon:~#
> So, it's kinda working. ;)
oups, which version of mandb is installed on you machine? (and which
kernel are you working with?)
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