Re: man -k doesn't work

[David Teague <dbt@elentari.cs.wcu.edu>]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Brian Stults wrote:

> 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?

Brian

You may have fixed the problem, and not recognize it. 

If you are getting 'nothing appropriate' that may be the correct
answer. For example, on my system, 

elentari:~[1]man -k ls
ls (1)               - list contents of directories
mkls-lR (8)          - Make ls-lR files on FTP server for mirror use
mktexlsr (1)         - create ls-R databases
texhash (1)          - create ls-R databases
elentari:~[1]man -k xxx
xxx: nothing appropriate.
elentari:~[1]

Try that and compare results.

--David
David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
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