[Slackbuilds-users] Follow-up of https://app.matera.eu/messages?topic_id=396674

[Didier Spaier]

Hi,

B. Watson wrote:

> So maybe we should be trying to talk PV into changing
> /etc/cron.daily/man-db, add a "-c" to the mandb command it
> runs. That'd make mandb rebuild the whole cache from scratch, and we
> wouldn't have to worry about doinst.sh at all.

> Pat doesn't seem to answer emails any more (or anyway, not the last
> few I sent him), maybe someone who uses LQ could try to contact him
> there? (I don't use it, not a big fan of web forums)

I could be this someone, however I do not see a mandb command in
/etc/cron.daily/man-db and am not acquainted with man-db

What changes should I request in this file (attached)?

Cheers,
Didier
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#!/bin/sh
# man-db daily cronjob, part of the man-db package.

# Unset $MANPATH so that mandb will get it from man_db.conf rather than
# the environment:
unset MANPATH

# Make sure the man-db cache directory exists:
mkdir -p /var/cache/man

# Regenerate the index databases caches used by man-db.
# These increase perfomance and provide features such as whatis and apropos.
ionice -c3 nice -n 19 /usr/bin/mandb --quiet