On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 08:49:46AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 04:04, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:20:12AM +0000, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > > > 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...) > > > > Yes, there is, and in cron.daily. The manual database doesn't get > > updated as insanely often as it used to, because that annoyed the hell > > out of people who were just trying to view individual pages. This may > > mean you need to run mandb yourself if you want things to show up in the > > database in a hurry. > > Thanks for the information. This is almost certainly the problem, > because this particular computer is more often shutdown than running. > Therefore none of the cron jobs scheduled at 0600 local time have run. If you have a box that is not up 24x7, and thus does not run all the housekeeping cronjobs, check out (and isntall :) the anacron package. I use it on my laptop. Regards, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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