[cdhostage]

When I see something in the beginner *nix literature I read or come across something unfamiliar in my perusals of the command line, I usually just type "whatis _" and I'm given a terse explanation of whatever the thing is. Then I man it if it looks promising.

This hasn't worked since i changed over to Panther. I did a clean install on my 15Al, and there were no problems in the install, as far as I know. I have a stock 15Al 1 GHz with an extra 512 MB of RAM.

When I try to whatis something, I get this:

$ whatis ssh
whatis: no whatis databases in /usr/share/man

Did the Installer skip this? Are the databases somewhere else on my hard drive so that I can copy or symlink them over? Should I stop worrying like a ninny and just accept that I can never <sob> use whatis again?

[Art Vandelay]

The databases are built by automated processes that are scheduled to run overnight. However, if you never leave your computer on overnight, these processes don't run. You can run them manually by typing the following in the Terminal...

sudo /etc/daily
sudo /etc/weekly
sudo /etc/monthly

[Judge_Fire]

And for those of you who prefer a GUI for these scheduled procesess, there's MacJanitor.

J

[Twilly Spree]

I got

whatis ssh

ssh(1) - OpenSSH SSH client (remote login program)
ssh-add(1) - adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent
ssh-agent(1) - authentication agent
ssh-keygen(1) - authentication key generation, management and conversion
ssh-keyscan(1) - gather ssh public keys
ssh-keysign(8) - ssh helper program for hostbased authentication
ssh_config(5) - OpenSSH SSH client configuration files
sshd(8) - OpenSSH SSH daemon
sshd_config(5) - OpenSSH SSH daemon configuration file
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