Whatis

DAILY(8) - System Manager's Manual

Accton, Fsck, Makewhatis, Calendar, Locate, Crontab, Sa, Security, Whatis, Dump, Yp, Cron, Ac, Rdist, Daily

DAILY(8) - System Manager’s Manual # DAILY(8) - System Manager’s Manual NAME # daily, weekly, monthly - periodic system maintenance DESCRIPTION # The three files /etc/daily, /etc/weekly, and /etc/monthly are shell scripts run on a periodic basis by the clock daemon, cron(8). They take care of some basic administrative tasks. Their output, if any, is mailed to root. Note: The scripts are all run as part of root’s crontab(5). However, it is strongly suggested that the root mail account be an alias that forwards messages to a real user or set of users. ...

HIER(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual

Whereis, Locate, Whatis, Find, Apropos, Which, Hier

HIER(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual # HIER(7) - Miscellaneous Information Manual NAME # hier - layout of filesystems DESCRIPTION # A sketch of the filesystem hierarchy. / Root directory. /altroot/ Alternate (backup) location for the root (’/’) filesystem (see daily(8)). /bin/ User utilities fundamental to both single and multi-user environments. These programs are statically compiled and therefore do not depend on any system libraries to run. /bsd Pure kernel executable (the operating system loaded into memory at boot-time). ...

MAKEWHATIS(8) - System Manager's Manual

Man, Apropos, Whatis, Man.conf, Makewhatis

MAKEWHATIS(8) - System Manager’s Manual # MAKEWHATIS(8) - System Manager’s Manual NAME # makewhatis - index UNIX manuals SYNOPSIS # makewhatis [-aDnpQ] [-T utf8] [-C file] makewhatis [-aDnpQ] [-T utf8] dir … makewhatis [-DnpQ] [-T utf8] -d dir [file …] makewhatis [-Dnp] [-T utf8] -u dir [file …] makewhatis [-DQ] -t file … DESCRIPTION # The makewhatis utility extracts keywords from UNIX manuals and indexes them in a database for fast retrieval by apropos(1), whatis(1), and man(1). ...

MANDOC.DB(5) - File Formats Manual

Man, Makewhatis, Apropos, Whatis, Mandoc-Db

MANDOC.DB(5) - File Formats Manual # MANDOC.DB(5) - File Formats Manual NAME # mandoc.db - manual page database DESCRIPTION # The mandoc.db file format is used to store information about installed manual pages to facilitate semantic searching for manuals. Each manual page tree contains its own mandoc.db file; see FILES for examples. Such database files are generated by makewhatis(8) and used by man(1), apropos(1) and whatis(1). The file format uses three datatypes: ...