[plug] apropos under Mandrake

Mike Holland michael_list at dingoblue.net.au
Wed May 9 09:52:10 WST 2001


On Tue, 8 May 2001, Kevin Shackleton wrote:

> I installed a Mandrake 7.2 and find there's a problem with
> whatis/apropos.  makewhatis takes a poofteenth of a second to run (on a

So how did you run it? The /etc/cron.*/makewhatis.cron scripts use
the '-w' option.  It would be safer to run those system scripts anyway.
That should fix it. 

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Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
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