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 > > mean you need to run mandb yourself if you want things to show up in the > > database in a hurry. > > Maybe it would make sense to have use of apropos cause a database update > (if the suid stuff is enabled). It was annoying to have it update the db > when a single page was being viewed, but updating the db before > searching is something else really.
Hmm. Perhaps, yes ... provided that there's a no-update function for those who just want an immediate answer. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]