Bug 7547

Summary:	whatis database not set up on install
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	David Balažic <david.balazic>
Component:	man	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Description David Balažic 1999-12-03 16:14:38 UTC

The whatis database is not set up on install.
'apropos' and 'whatis' does not work.
Running 'makewhatis -w' fixes it.
I know that it is called from cron.daily, but several hours can
pass before that , and a new users needs this help in the first
hours most !

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 1999-12-08 14:53:59 UTC

This is intentional. We can't include a prebuild whatis database because we
can't predict what man pages will be installed, and running makewhatis from the
installer would just slow down the installation; cron does a better job here.

If you have a better solution, let me know...

Comment 2 David Balažic 1999-12-08 15:42:59 UTC

How about running makewhatis on first boot ?
The calling script should then be deleted or altered, something
like the Wind*ws RunOnce things :-)