Re: [gentoo-user] makewhatis -u

[Dale]

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)?
>
> Thanks for suggestions
>
>

If you don't use man pages, you may not need to even run it at all.  It
has a daily cron job here that I assume portage put there.  I don't
recall putting it there at least.  I think it would be nice for it to
check this after emerging something that updates a man page myself. 
Maybe some extra option in make.conf or something.  Oooops, watch it
already be a option that I don't know about.  LOL

You run locate every hour?  You must really add files a lot.  :-o

Dale

:-)  :-)