On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:13:01PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > 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
Colin Watson wrote:
> 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 u
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 +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> >
> > > There *should* be a weekly cron job (/etc/cron.weekly/man-db) that does
> > > that (at least there i
On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 04:04, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:20:12AM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> > 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:
> > >
> > > [EMAIL
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Subject: Re: apropos does nothing
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:05:26PM -0700, Vector wrote:
> > It is a waste of a command in the first place.
>
> Perhaps you should read 'man apropos' (ironically) before di
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:05:26PM -0700, Vector wrote:
> It is a waste of a command in the first place.
Perhaps you should read 'man apropos' (ironically) before dispensing
wrong advice.
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:20:12AM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos ls
> > ls: nothing appropriate.
> >
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:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos ls
> ls: nothing appropriate.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos apropos
> apropos: nothing appropriate.
> [snip]
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:05:26PM -0700, Vector wrote:
> It is a waste of a command in the first place. Use which, locate, and find
> instead. If locate gives you nothing run updatedb to build the file
> location database, then put in cron every night and you're all set.
None of those suggestio
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:29:11 -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>Somehow I have an unstable installation where apropos doesn't do a damn
>thing:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos ls
>ls: nothing appropriate.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos apropos
>apropos: nothing appropriate.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/v
man -k pthread
heheh
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From: "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: apropos does nothing
> On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 20:05, Vector wrote:
> > It is a waste of a command in the first place
* Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Jan 21. 2002 23:30]:
> Okay fine. But on slackware I can do 'man -K pthread' and get every
> manual page on the whole system that mentions pthread. What is the
> equivalent funtion on Debian?
If you _have_ to have `apropos` why not just alias `man -k` to
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 20:05, Vector wrote:
> It is a waste of a command in the first place. Use which, locate, and find
> instead. If locate gives you nothing run updatedb to build the file
> location database, then put in cron every night and you're all set.
Okay fine. But on slackware I can d
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Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 8:29 PM
Subject: apropos does nothing
> Somehow I have an unstable installation where apropos doesn't do a damn
> thing:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos ls
> ls: nothing appropriate.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ ap
Somehow I have an unstable installation where apropos doesn't do a damn
thing:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos ls
ls: nothing appropriate.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos apropos
apropos: nothing appropriate.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ ls /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz
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