Re: woody + apropos
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:11:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> Nope, the poster was right. Since I shut off my machine at night, and
> don't like anacron, cron never runs. I just ran /etc/cron.daily/man-db
> as root, and it built the database and apropos works.
Bug #133917. Highly non-trivial to fix properly, although I'd like to do
it in the future.
> It still might be worth a bug; the postinst only builds the database
> on fresh installs if man-db is not installed setuid. I don't
> understand that; seems like it needs a database.
I'll change that, I suppose. It's not entirely that simple though; if
you never run mandb, sure, you'll have a database and apropos will
return some hits, but it might be arbitrarily far out of date. I
strongly recommend that you find some way to run mandb reasonably
regularly.
Then again, when man-db is installed setuid, any user can just run
mandb, no need for root privileges ...
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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