whatis and apropos don't work

[Warren Sturm]

You may need to run makewhatis first.  There should also be a cron job
that runs this weekly (/etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis.cron).  Perhaps it is
failing for some reason.

On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 10:18 +0700, Yunus wrote:
> Dear All,
>  
> I'm using FC3. I tried to issue these commands  below at terminal
> window:
>       [yunus at localhost ] whatis ls      
>       bash: ls nothing apropriate              <<== i always get this
> message
>                        and
>       [yunus at localhost ] apropos browser
>       bash: browser nothing apropriate    <<== i always get this
> message
>  
> Could anyone help me with this problem?
>  
> Thanks in advance!
>  
> Regards,
>  
> yunus
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