Re: Newbie questions
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 08:43:24PM +0100, Inge Thorin Eidsaether wrote:
> 2 - Doing a 'man-k <some_command>' (or man -f <some_command>) does not work.
> Is there a misconfiguration somewhere?
You probably need to run '/etc/cron.daily/man-db' as root. If your
system is on full-time then cron should do this for you; otherwise,
install anacron.
(There was a bug in the version of man-db in woody that meant the
installation process didn't do this automatically. Sorry.)
> 3 - How do I go backwards in a man page reading? Looks like 'more' is used to
> page the ouput to screen, but 'b' or ^B does not work here.
> Silly question, maybe...
'more' can't go back when reading from standard input. Try installing
'less' instead; it's a better pager in other ways anyway.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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