Re: man -k doesn't work
Ethan Benson wrote:
> the mandb cron job has not been run yet, i think its a weekly:
> /etc/cron.weekly/mandb
> should make it run now, it takes a while.
I tried that, but I still get "nothing appropriate". Any other
suggestions?
Thanks,
Brian
> On 4/1/2000 Brian J. Stults wrote:
>
> >When I type man -k [anything], I always get this result:
> >
> >[anything]: nothing appropriate
> >
> >It doesn't matter what I substitite for "anything". I have the
> >environment variable MANPATH set like this in .bash_profile:
> >
> >MANPATH=/usr/bin/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man
> >
> >Can someone suggest an answer? Thanks!
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Brian J. Stults
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Sociology
University at Albany - SUNY
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