Setting up Sman

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The easiest wat to set up Sman is via the CPAN shell. Make sure you already have SWISH-E installed, and type

 # perl -MCPAN -e 'install Sman'

Alternately, you can use the normal untar, perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install process.

Once installed, sman-update needs to be run to create the sman index, which resides by default in /var/lib/sman/sman.index (and sman.index.prop). You'll need to run sman-update initially to create the index, and then periodically after that to keep the index updated. (The sman & sman-update executable pair is modeled on slocate & updatedb).

The sman configuration file resides by default in /usr/local/etc/sman.conf and is used by sman and especially sman-update.

See http://search.cpan.org/~joshr/Sman/script/sman and http://search.cpan.org/~joshr/Sman/ for more information.