Bug 136016 - Cannot do keyword lookup with man
Summary: Cannot do keyword lookup with man
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: man
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-10-16 20:16 UTC by John Mizell
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-10-19 19:01:09 UTC
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Description John Mizell 2004-10-16 20:16:42 UTC 
Description of problem:
Cannot do keyword lookup with man -k 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

man-1.5m2-9

How reproducible:

Everytime
Steps to Reproduce:
1.man -k ls
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
[root@supernova input]# man -k ls
ls: nothing appropriate


Expected results:

A listing of man pages related to ls
Additional info:
Comment 1 John Mizell 2004-10-16 21:12:31 UTC 
after running /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis.cron
man -k works. Maybe this needs to be run after first boot to initalize
the database.
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