whatis and apropos don't work
Warren Sturm
wrsturm at mtroyal.ca
Fri Dec 16 03:18:07 UTC 2005
You may need to run makewhatis first. There should also be a cron job
that runs this weekly (/etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis.cron). Perhaps it is
failing for some reason.
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 10:18 +0700, Yunus wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I'm using FC3. I tried to issue these commands below at terminal
> window:
> [yunus at localhost ] whatis ls
> bash: ls nothing apropriate <<== i always get this
> message
> and
> [yunus at localhost ] apropos browser
> bash: browser nothing apropriate <<== i always get this
> message
>
> Could anyone help me with this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards,
>
> yunus
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