Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto Read the Fine Manual
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 08:53:42
Message-Id: 200705231048.00373.f.philipp@addcom.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto Read the Fine Manual by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 Am Dienstag 22 Mai 2007 22:53 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen:
2 > On Tuesday 22 May 2007 22:09:33 Florian Philipp wrote:
3 > > Why doesn't apropos or man -k find anything?
4 > >
5 > > For example:
6 > > # man -k man
7 > > man: nothing appropriate
8 >
9 > sys-apps/man installs a cron job in /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis. Did you
10 > install a cron daemon? Is it configured to run cron jobs in /etc/cron.*/ ?
11 > (vixie-cron defaults to that).
12 >
13 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=9#doc_ch
14 >ap2
15
16 Ah, thanks, Dan and Bo!
17
18 It seems I've forgotten to activate vixie.