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Re: apropos does nothing



On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:05:26PM -0700, Vector wrote:
> It is a waste of a command in the first place.  Use which, locate, and find
> instead.  If locate gives you nothing run updatedb to build the file
> location database, then put in cron every night and you're all set.

None of those suggestions are relevant to manpage title searching.

Jeffrey, try running 

/etc/cron.weekly/man-db
as root. That should rebuild the apropos data. Then try again.

Joshua



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