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Date:      Sun, 8 Sep 2002 00:01:02 +0100 (BST)
From:      Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
To:        Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: man -k (metacity | xinit)
Message-ID:  <200209072301.AAA04593@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Peter Leftwich's message of Sat, 7 Sep 2002 15:01:25 -0700 (PDT)

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> myprompt$ man -k xinit
> xinit: nothing appropriate
> 
> myprompt$ man xinit
> [displays the manpage (1) for xinit!!]

See the man page for makewhatis.

Makewhatis gets run weekly, but only if your computer is switched on
at 4.15am on Sunday.

-- Richard

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