Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:40:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: San Diego's BSD Users Group <sdbug@sdbug.org> Cc: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org> Subject: Re: [SDBUG] TZ Message-ID: <20030618213545.U16872@rocket.alienwebshop.com> In-Reply-To: <20030619012850.GO42940@klapaucius.zer0.org> References: <20030618180212.C50362-100000@Video2Video.Com> <20030619012850.GO42940@klapaucius.zer0.org>
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Gregory Sutter wrote: > On 2003-06-18 18:04 -0700, Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> wrote: > > Well I'm sitting here typing "date" over and over but she doesn't appear. :) *lament* None of my fellow nerds have quite the sense of humour I expected! > Peter, You specified it using sysinstall, which you can do again; alternately, Gregory, thank you for your response. And, ah, yes, you are so right. Now I recall that part of sysinstall!! > 'man tzsetup' for the direct command. 'man tzset' for the relevant > functions in libc. durrrrrrrr *drools and runs `man -k timezone` and sees tzsetup* > I'd also like to help you find things on your system more easily. > I suspect you don't know about the 'apropos' command (aka 'man -k'), > which shows you short descriptions of system commands relevant to > keywords you give it. In your example, 'apropos timezone' includes > the correct results. Apropos isn't the greatest search tool ever > but it usually gives you what you need if you search for the base(s) > of your search needs. 'apropos zone' shows a small (usable) list, > and even 'apropos time' works if you want to sort through a bunch > of results. Yeah yeah yeah . . . I gave up after running `man timezone` and being told about C functions that parts of the compiled OS use *smiles* > (You can also use 'locate' to find things on your system, but the > timezone example is really bad (3 levels of indirection through C > functions before you find out about tzsetup) so I won't go into detail.) > Greg "locate" is evil -- I much prefer `find . -iname "*something*" -print` :) Does locate offer real-world "manpage examples" (which are badly-needed)? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com
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