Re: ON LINKS AND THINGS
|> First thing I did after installing debian was to run makewhatis on
|> /usr/man and /usr/X386/man, *simultaneously* and in the background.
|> Both jobs finished without incident. [...] I don't think I ever
|> actually started swapping. This is debian 0.90, by the way. Perhaps
|> something changed in 0.91?
|
|Well, my DEBIAN .91 makewhatis does not work either, and I get a very
|specific error:
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|sed: Couldn't re-allocate memory
|
|I only have 8 megs RAM and a 16 meg swap.
|
|Jim
I installed DEBIAN 0.91 and ran makewhatis. It finished without
incident. Everything looks fine. My machine only has 4 megs RAM and
16 megs swap. There is some definate wierdness going on.
Clark
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