man page -k problem

BHusson · 05-26-2005, 09:55 AM

I am teaching a beginning class in Red Hat Linux. When I perform the following command on my server and personal machine:

man -k passwd

I get the correct output. When my students do the same command, they get the "nothing appropriate" error message. As far as I know, the systems were installed the same from RHEL 3.0. What could be the problem.

Thanks!

Berhanie · 05-26-2005, 10:01 AM

I don't know what the problem is, but you can build the whatis database by doing something like

Code:

makewhatis -w