manual pages

vcheah · 12-06-2001, 06:59 PM

when i do
> man -k user
user: nothing appropriate

> man -k finger
finger: nothing appropriate

what's wrongs?

DavidPhillips · 12-06-2001, 08:05 PM

this will return every instance of user and finger in the man pages

what exactly are you looking for

vcheah · 12-06-2001, 08:51 PM

On the other system i recieve response like...

> man -k finger
chfn (1) - change your finger infor
finger (1) - user information lookup
fingerd (8) - remote user information
fingerd [in] (8) - remote user information
pinky (1) - lightweight finger

DavidPhillips · 12-06-2001, 09:04 PM

what do you get on the one in question?

and what does man -v say?

vcheah · 12-06-2001, 09:08 PM

> man -v
man, version 1.5h

DavidPhillips · 12-06-2001, 09:26 PM

try man adduser

does man --help show the -k option?

what happens with -K

vcheah · 12-06-2001, 09:32 PM

well it works for man useradd
but not the k option
the k option is showed in --help :-

> man --help
~....
h : print this help message
k : same as apropos(1)
K : search for a string in all pages
~

DavidPhillips · 12-06-2001, 09:35 PM

Strange, it must be a

look at the etc/man.config file

DavidPhillips · 12-06-2001, 09:40 PM

do man -kd user

DavidPhillips · 12-06-2001, 09:42 PM

and try apropos user

or /usr/bin/apropos user