On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:11:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > Nope, the poster was right. Since I shut off my machine at night, and > don't like anacron, cron never runs. I just ran /etc/cron.daily/man-db > as root, and it built the database and apropos works.
Bug #133917. Highly non-trivial to fix properly, although I'd like to do it in the future. > It still might be worth a bug; the postinst only builds the database > on fresh installs if man-db is not installed setuid. I don't > understand that; seems like it needs a database. I'll change that, I suppose. It's not entirely that simple though; if you never run mandb, sure, you'll have a database and apropos will return some hits, but it might be arbitrarily far out of date. I strongly recommend that you find some way to run mandb reasonably regularly. Then again, when man-db is installed setuid, any user can just run mandb, no need for root privileges ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
