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diff --git a/system/man-db/README.Slackware b/system/man-db/README.Slackware index f0eb6b57ca842..165e9dfa4c421 100644 --- a/system/man-db/README.Slackware +++ b/system/man-db/README.Slackware @@ -12,15 +12,14 @@ installed in this case. When installing man-db, the doinst.sh script may take several minutes to run. This is because it's indexing all the man pages on the system. Also, a cron job is installed in /etc/cron.daily, which adds newly-installed -man pages to the database. The index speeds up searching via "man -K", -"man -k", or "apropos". It's fast enough that "man -K" is now actually -useful... the disadvantage is that newly-installed man pages won't be -found in these searches until the database has been updated, so any time -you install new man pages, you'll want to run "mandb" as root, or wait -for cron to do it for you (if you don't do this, the new pages can still -be displayed, they just won't be searchable). The indexing runs quickly -once the initial database has been created, so the cron job or manual -update shouldn't bring your system to its knees. +man pages to the database. The index speeds up searching via "man -k" +or "apropos". The disadvantage is that newly-installed man pages won't +be found in these searches until the database has been updated, so any +time you install new man pages, you'll want to run "mandb" as root, or +wait for cron to do it for you (if you don't do this, the new pages can +still be displayed, they just won't be searchable). The indexing runs +quickly once the initial database has been created, so the cron job or +manual update shouldn't bring your system to its knees. The database is located in /var/cache/man, and on a full Slackware install will be approximately 5MB in size. During index creation, approximately |