apropos broken in 1.3?
Hello--
It seems my apropos doesn't work; I've got Debian 1.3.1 and -- according to
apropos -- nothing is ever appropriate. So I did an "apropos -d a" and got this:
found mandatory man directory /usr/man
found mandatory man directory /usr/X11R6/man
found mandatory man directory /usr/local/man
found manpath map /bin --> /usr/man
found manpath map /usr/bin --> /usr/man
found manpath map /sbin --> /usr/man
found manpath map /usr/sbin --> /usr/man
found manpath map /usr/local/bin --> /usr/local/man
found manpath map /usr/local/sbin --> /usr/local/man
found manpath map /usr/X11R6/bin --> /usr/X11R6/man
found manpath map /usr/games --> /usr/man
found global mandir /usr/man/de_DE mapped to catdir /var/catman/de_DE
found global mandir /usr/man/it_IT mapped to catdir /var/catman/it_IT
found global mandir /usr/man mapped to catdir /var/catman
found global mandir /usr/local/man mapped to catdir /var/catman/local
found global mandir /usr/X11R6/man mapped to catdir /var/catman/X11R6
path directory /usr/local/bin is in the config file
adding /usr/local/man to manpath
path directory /usr/bin is in the config file
adding /usr/man to manpath
path directory /bin is in the config file
/usr/man is already in the manpath
path directory /usr/bin/X11 is not in the config file
and doesn't have man or MAN subdirectories
path directory /usr/games is in the config file
/usr/man is already in the manpath
path directory . is not in the config file
and doesn't have man or MAN subdirectories
adding mandatory man directories
/usr/man is already in the manpath
adding /usr/X11R6/man to manpath
/usr/local/man is already in the manpath
adding /usr/local/man to manpathlist
adding /usr/man to manpathlist
adding /usr/X11R6/man to manpathlist
lower(a) = "a"
path=/usr/local/man
apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
apropos: /usr/local/man/whatis: No such file or directory
path=/usr/man
apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
apropos: /usr/man/whatis: No such file or directory
path=/usr/X11R6/man
apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
apropos: /usr/X11R6/man/whatis: No such file or directory
a: nothing appropriate.
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