Ethan Benson wrote: > the mandb cron job has not been run yet, i think its a weekly: > /etc/cron.weekly/mandb > should make it run now, it takes a while.
I tried that, but I still get "nothing appropriate". Any other suggestions? Thanks, Brian > On 4/1/2000 Brian J. Stults wrote: > > >When I type man -k [anything], I always get this result: > > > >[anything]: nothing appropriate > > > >It doesn't matter what I substitite for "anything". I have the > >environment variable MANPATH set like this in .bash_profile: > > > >MANPATH=/usr/bin/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man > > > >Can someone suggest an answer? Thanks! -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452