On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Joe Cooper wrote:
> > You need to run "makewhatis" to create the whatis database. A cron job to
> > do this occasionally should have been installed automatically, but it
> > doesn't do it right away.
> >
> > Michael
>
> Hmmm...Therein lies the rub, it would seem. I tried running makewhatis
> with no success. It responds, "bash: makewhatis: command not found".
> And a quick glance through bin and sbin confirms that it is not present.
It should be in /usr/sbin if it was installed. I'm afraid I don't know
what package it's in, but isn't there some way to search the rpm packages
on the cd? (I'm afraid I don't know much about rpm yet either.)
> I'll go see if I can figure out what package on my CD this comes from.
> Will I be able to just put the binary on my hard disk (wherever RPM
> wants to put it, presumably bin) and have it run ok? Hopefully, this
> cron job of which you speak was actually put in place...because I
> haven't the foggiest notion of how or where to put such a thing.
You need to have the cron daemon running in order for cron jobs to be
executed. You can see if it is running by doing "ps x" as root and
looking for crond. It is normally started at boot.
Also, check for directories named /etc/cron.* There should be a shell
script in /etc/cron.weekly called makewhatis.cron
> Linux certainly is a humbling experience for a geek who thinks he knows
> everything, such as myself.
Unix/Linux can humble the best of us--especially mere mortals like me. :)
(But it's better than any alternative I've yet come across.)
Michael
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