Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-23 Thread Colin Watson
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

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-22 Thread Joey Hess
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

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-22 Thread Nathan E Norman
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

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-22 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
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

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-22 Thread Vector
TECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 5:05 AM 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

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
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. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
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. > >

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-22 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
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]

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-21 Thread Joshua Goodall
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

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-21 Thread Gary Turner
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

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-21 Thread Vector
man -k pthread heheh - Original Message - 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

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-21 Thread Brian Clark
* 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

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-21 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
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

Re: apropos does nothing

2002-01-21 Thread Vector
AIL PROTECTED]> To: 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

apropos does nothing

2002-01-21 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
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 [EMAIL