Author: Erwin J. van Eijk
Email: eijk@huygens.org
Web Page: http://www.huygens.org/~eijk
Date Submitted: Sat, Apr 18, 1998
Status: New Entry
Releases: | all |
Platform: | all |
Category: | Common Problems with Linux\Unix Commands |
Category Listing: | "WHY IS WHATIS NOT WORKING" |
If I type whatis whatis or man -k man nothing is returned, what am I doing wrong?
You have to rebuild the whatis database by running makewhatis If you often install new manual pages, you might put makewhatis in your crontab, so the whatis database is updated every night automagically. Like this: 0 2 * * * root /usr/sbin/makewhatis
This information was from some helpful people on the redhat mailing list.