Very Computer

The command 'man -k' I believe just runs a shell script called apropos.
this is my first attempt at "using the source, Luke."  Apropos uses the
command manpath=`/usr/bin/man --path | tr :'\040'` to find where to look.
To check this at a command line, echo of this.

One thing to note about my man setup.  I found a bug in the
/usr/lib/makewhatis script I have with my Slackware 2.2.0.1 setup.  I
believe this is significant because it creates that whatis database files
that the man -k, apropos, whatis, and whereis scripts uses.  Not all man
pages are included when first creating this set of whatis databases, nor
are they all updated when running updatedb.  I am tracking down the
current maintainers of this script.

Related to all this are locate and updatedb (run from cron).  In short, I
am trying to get these subsystems working correctly, and it's kind of a
struggle, because they are all inter-related.  I almost got it now, except
for this makewhatis bug.

Cheers,
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: Related to all this are locate and updatedb (run from cron).  In short, I
: am trying to get these subsystems working correctly, and it's kind of a
: struggle, because they are all inter-related.  I almost got it now, except
: for this makewhatis bug.

The best solution for this problem is to upgrade the find package from
Slackware 2.3.0.  That is what I did, and it seems to have fixed all
of the configurations problems.  And locate/updatedb are completely
separate from the man pages stuff, and updatedb does not update the
man pages database.

 - Ian

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