Just installed TkMan from the SuSE 5.1 CD's. It complained about no whatis databases. Ran makewhatis manually and now only get the error "/usr/man/preformat -- doesn't exist" Question: As I have REINIT=yes in rc.config, I expected the SuSE system to take care of the man updates. I find that IF cron.daily ran this would be the case. In root/bin/cron.daily: # cron.daily. This script is executed as a cron-job in the # early morning-hours. Please add your local changes to # cron.daily.local # since this file will be overwritten, when updating your system. # BUT I find the following in /sbin/init.d/boot # The following script is executed at boot-up and also from a # cron-entry # # in the early morning. So your system should be checked often # enough. #if test -x /root/bin/cron.daily; then # /root/bin/cron.daily #fi As this entry is commented out in the file I assume that SuSE does not want cron.daily run(?). If that is the case (?) what is the purpose of cron.daily? Should I go back to putting all of this type of daily job in my crontab or is it OK to just uncomment the cron.daily call in /sbin/init.d/boot and then call that from a cron job? As the book has no information on the cron.daily.local file format, could someone give an example as the how the entries in this file should look. Should that be added as in a normal crontab file or as in a script file? Has the /usr/man/preformat/cat1 .... directory been replaced by something else in SuSE? (I see that the Live file system is lacking the preformat directry as well.) If so, could you please tell me what I should use so that I can get rid of that TkMan error message. Sorry for the questions but SuSE has introduced (at least to me), a few new ways to do things and I would like to do it the SuSE way in this setup. wayne -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e