I just reimaged my laptop, and discovered that the “apropos” command had nothing in its database. (You use “apropos” to look up man pages related to a topic. It looks through an index to find appropriate pages to list, and the periodic maintenance tasks had not created the index.) OK. No problem. Google is my friend.
Google took me to an Apple Knowledge Base article that is out of date: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2319
This article states that you should, from the terminal, run “/etc/daily” to run the daily maintenance tasks. That may have been true before LaunchD took over from cron, but it’s not true anymore. There is no /etc/daily file on my 10.5 system.
The other option they suggest, “sudo periodic weekly” did work, and generated the apropos index files.
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The very first command I learned to use in Terminal, before OS X was actually released was
sudo periodic daily
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Posted 15 Mar 2009 at 10:08 pm ¶weekly
monthly
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