Re: [LI] Apropos

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 07:16:08PM +0530, Aditya Deshpande wrote:
> Hi,
>     is there a database which is created for apropos. because it is not
> working on my pc. if a database has to be created using cron please tell me
> about it

It's called makewhatis. On a Redhat system, it's on

/etc/cron.daily/makewhatis*

I prefer to run it once a week (it makes a big noise with my disk, which
I hate on the rare days when I'm up late in the night to notice it).

	-Arun

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