[gentoo-user] Re: makewhatis -u

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 10/06/2009 03:16 PM, KH wrote:
> Hi,
>
> during an update I read somewhere something like: "Hey run makewhatis -u
> . Also you should have a cronjob doing this regularly."
>
> I never heard of this before (but I am not the real geek - more like a
> user) but I wonder how regularly I should have the cronjob run the
> command. Is this to be done with every update or like every hour (like I
> do with locate -u)?

Whenever man pages are changed.  It's responsible for the answer you get 
when typing:

   whatis ping