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Re: makewhatis
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
> > not to mention my uptime went up to 2.8! it greps, gawks, slices and dices
> > and leaves my server with no room to breath! is this natural?
>
> It's not. I run makewhatis on boxes with 16MBsmoothly. Though, I do remember
> someone mentioned it before. If I'm right, that was a binary version of
> makewhatis. On my systems, makewhatis is a perl script. If yours is the perl
> script also, it should be possible to trace the problem down in the debugging
> mode.
Shell script! standard Picasso thing.
running it again as root now... silly me! I should have guessed it would
not write the DB when not running as root...
uptime
2:16am up 3 days, 11:19, 2 users, load average: 2.65, 1.77, 0.90
not MUCH better...
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