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
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 u
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 08:49:46AM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 04:04, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:20:12AM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> >
> > > There *should* be a weekly cron job (/etc/cron.weekly/man-db) that does
> > > that (at least there i
On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 04:04, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:20:12AM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:29:11PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> > > Somehow I have an unstable installation where apropos doesn't do a damn
> > > thing:
> > >
> > > [EMAIL
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Subject: Re: apropos does nothing
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:05:26PM -0700, Vector wrote:
> > It is a waste of a command in the first place.
>
> Perhaps you should read 'man apropos' (ironically) before di
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:05:26PM -0700, Vector wrote:
> It is a waste of a command in the first place.
Perhaps you should read 'man apropos' (ironically) before dispensing
wrong advice.
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:20:12AM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:29:11PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> > Somehow I have an unstable installation where apropos doesn't do a damn
> > thing:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos ls
> > ls: nothing appropriate.
> >
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:29:11PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> Somehow I have an unstable installation where apropos doesn't do a damn
> thing:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos ls
> ls: nothing appropriate.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos apropos
> apropos: nothing appropriate.
> [snip]
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:05:26PM -0700, Vector wrote:
> It is a waste of a command in the first place. Use which, locate, and find
> instead. If locate gives you nothing run updatedb to build the file
> location database, then put in cron every night and you're all set.
None of those suggestio
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:29:11 -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>Somehow I have an unstable installation where apropos doesn't do a damn
>thing:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos ls
>ls: nothing appropriate.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var$ apropos apropos
>apropos: nothing appropriate.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/v
man -k pthread
heheh
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From: "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: apropos does nothing
> On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 20:05, Vector wrote:
> > It is a waste of a command in the first place
* Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Jan 21. 2002 23:30]:
> Okay fine. But on slackware I can do 'man -K pthread' and get every
> manual page on the whole system that mentions pthread. What is the
> equivalent funtion on Debian?
If you _have_ to have `apropos` why not just alias `man -k` to
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 20:05, Vector wrote:
> It is a waste of a command in the first place. Use which, locate, and find
> instead. If locate gives you nothing run updatedb to build the file
> location database, then put in cron every night and you're all set.
Okay fine. But on slackware I can d
It is a waste of a command in the first place. Use which, locate, and find
instead. If locate gives you nothing run updatedb to build the file
location database, then put in cron every night and you're all set.
vec
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