I usually have a situation that I have just installed a port and I immediately want to find an appropriate manual page for it using apropos, but it can't locate it. The reason why is that apropos uses the database generated by makewhatis and since it has not been re-generated after the...
This happened on a small VPS running FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p10 when performing weekly cron jobs.
The system has 512M of RAM and 1024M of swap, it's hard to believe it was not enough:% tail /var/log/messages
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Jun 9 04:54:39 eu kernel: pid 15265 (makewhatis), uid 0, was killed: out of swap...
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