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From: "eric huff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 12:25
Subject: Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?
> > and that's probably where apropos comes in
> > (see last line of included output)
>
> I was just about to mention apropos, but check out my output: no ln
> command.
>
> I definitely have ln, and a man page for it...
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ apropos link
> NETLINK_ROUTE [rtnetlink] (7) - Linux IPv4 routing socket
> PF_NETLINK [netlink] (7) - Communication between kernel and user
> _skb_unlink [skb_unlink] (9) - remove an sk_buff from its list
> dlclose [dlopen] (3) - Programming interface to dynamic linking
loader
> dlerror [dlopen] (3) - Programming interface to dynamic linking
loader
> dlopen (3) - Programming interface to dynamic linking
loader
> dlsym [dlopen] (3) - Programming interface to dynamic linking
loader
> link (2) - make a new name for a file
> netlink (3) - Netlink macros
> netlink (7) - Communication between kernel and user
> readlink (2) - read value of a symbolic link
> rtnetlink (3) - Macros to manipuate rtnetlink messages
> rtnetlink (7) - Linux IPv4 routing socket
> shm_open (3) - Create/open or unlink POSIX shared memory
> objects
> shm_unlink [shm_open] (3) - Create/open or unlink POSIX shared memory
> objects
> skb_unlink (9) - remove an sk_buff from its list
> symlink (2) - make a new name for a file
> unlink (2) - delete a name and possibly the file it refers
> to
i suspect a combination of mandrake versions and installation type can mess
up apropos.
in my quoted case, i was using mandrake 9.1, text-install, and minimal
choice of packages.
i realised that man-pages-whateverversion.rpm wasn't installed, and apropos
as a result didn't show many otherwise useful possibilities until i added
man-pages.whatever.rpm manually using urpmi.
on my mandrake 9.0 system, apropos fails completely, showing no output for
even common stuff, eg
# apropos cp
cp: nothing appropriate
running makewhatis results in the following error.
# makewhatis
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 156: cd: /usr/man: No such file or directory
i just left it alone, since i do most of my work (except email) on my
mandrake 9.1 system anyway.
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