[plug] apropos under Mandrake

[Kevin Shackleton]

Oddly enough, I left the machine on for a day while I was trialling some
Delphi stuff that talks to MySQL and behold - a working apropos!

Checking the cron.daily I see that indeed makewhatis is run with the -u
-w switches.

I don't seem to have a man page for makewhatis so I could not say what
these switches do.

Thanks everyone for your time.

K.
ps - you wouldn't be surprised at the difference between a Delphi app
(under Windows) talking to an Access database using ADO (ActiveX
database objects) and the same app talking to MySQL.  The network
traffic with the ADO connection is unbelievable, for an app that only
communicates once per minute.

Mike Holland wrote:
> 
> 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.