David Teague wrote: > > 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.
Funny you should suggest using "ls" because that's what first comes to my fingers when I want to test it. Indeed, "man -k ls" results in, ls: nothing appropriate. It turns out mandb is failing. When I run mandb as root I get this: Processing manual pages under /usr/man... Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait...mandb: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied I don't know enough about how mandb works (even after reading the manpage and documentation) to know why this is happening. Any ideas? -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452