On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:29:11PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> Somehow I have an unstable installation where apropos doesn't do a damn
> thing:
>
> jwb@noodles:/var$ apropos ls
> ls: nothing appropriate.
> jwb@noodles:/var$ apropos apropos
> apropos: nothing appropriate.
> [snip]
I've had that problem from time to time (especially after upgrades).
Running
# mandb
sorts it out.
There *should* be a weekly cron job (/etc/cron.weekly/man-db) that does
that (at least there is here, and I didn't create it...)
Hope this helps
--
Karl E. Jørgensen
karl@jorgensen.com
www.karl.jorgensen.com
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