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Bug 45827

Summary: Troubles with data updates for 'apropos'
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Michal Jaegermann <michal>
Component: manAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2001-06-25 16:16:22 UTC 
Try this (assuming that /var/cache/man/whatis does not exist yet):

# man man
[ fine if a bit slow ]
# man -k man
man: nothing appropriate
[ **after** /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron run from cron 
 earnining you only a bunch of errors in mail ]
# apropos man
man: nothing appropriate         <--------- this is the problem
# sh -x /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron
# apropos man
[ now it works with a vengeance ]
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-07-03 11:36:07 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45646 ***