[gentoo-user] Re: makewhatis -u

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 10/06/2009 03:16 PM, KH wrote:
Hi,
during an update I read somewhere something like: "Hey run makewhatis -u
. Also you should have a cronjob doing this regularly."

I never heard of this before (but I am not the real geek - more like a
user) but I wonder how regularly I should have the cronjob run the
command. Is this to be done with every update or like every hour (like I
do with locate -u)?

Whenever man pages are changed.  It's responsible for the answer you get 
when typing:

  whatis ping