On debian-user-digest "Heiko R. Selber" wrote: > Hello, > > when looking for manpages with apropos I always get an error message and > the wildcard search fails for X related (and some other) man pages. > > (I use Debian 1.1.4) > > Look at this: > > ---- BEGIN pretty good example ---- > rudi:~$ apropos -w XDraw* > apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database. > apropos: /usr/X11/man/whatis: No such file or directory > XDraw*: nothing appropriate. > > rudi:~$ apropos XDrawPoint > XDrawPoint (3x) - draw points and points structure > apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database. > apropos: /usr/X11/man/whatis: No such file or directory > ----- END pretty good example ----- > > How do I create the fallback whatis database? Do I need it?
It should be created automatically. Go superuser and try mandb -c What version of apropos are you running? Try apropos --version or dpkg -s man ciao, Fabrizio -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://megabaud.fi/~fpolacco/ Join the UKI Linux Project! | | fingerprint 70 1A 72 2D 2B C8 A5 63 7A C2 CC E0 2A 54 AE DA | | finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From miss Received: from mongo.pixar.com (138.72.50.60) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 6 Dec 1996 15:26:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 3987 invoked from network); 6 Dec 1996 15:10:05 -0000 Received: from softdnserror (HELO master.debian.org) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by mongo.pixar.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 1996 15:09:23 -0000 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Fri, 6 Dec 1996 10:10:02 -0500 From: Ami Ganguli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Ganguli Consulting Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: H C Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Swap overdraft References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"RPUq62.0.S_7.cg3go"@master.debian.org> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/916 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Priority: non-urgent Importance: low Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] H C Lai wrote: > Thanks for all the replies so far. The impression I get is that > Linux does support the 'over-commitment' mode. Kernel 2.0.0 definitely > does not support this. I have a ~10 lines of small fortran test > programme which basically creates a HUGE array in a common block and > then tries to use a small part of it. It failed with segmentation > fault on elf. But succeeds by just putting in more swap !! Hmmm. I suspect that Fortran is trying to help you out by initializing the array elements to zero. Try a C program with "malloc". ... Ami. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
