Re: man!

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com>]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> When I installed fetchmail and typed man fetchmail it did not work.
> But when I did a reboot it worked after that. I have now installed
> pgp and when I type man pgp "No manual entry for pgp"!! So I did a
> locate "/usr/man/man1/pgp.1.gz". What is wrong ?

I don't know what is wrong, because my man can see newly installed
manual pages.  So, rather than solve your problem, I'll give a crutch.
Try running (as root) mandb to update the man caches.  This will
at least avoid a reboot.

> I can not reboot
> my computer every time i install something!

I did that in Windows for years.

-Mitch