[PLUG] cron.weekly read file errors

[Anthony Schlemmer]

I think this is related to man pages and the creation of a cache file 
for the "whatis" command. You might look at the makewhatis.cron file 
and see what command it is running.

Tony

On Sunday 09 June 2002 08:08 am, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   Each Sunday, the cron daemon sends root a report with the results
> of run-parts on cron.weekly. The only file in /etc/cron.weekly is
> makewhatis.cron. There's nothing in that script that leads me to
> understand the source of these error messages:
>
> Read file error: ./cancel. No such file or directory
> Read file error: ./slogin1.1 No such file or directory
> Read file error: ./disable.8 No such file or directory
> Read file error: ./reject.8 No such file or directory
> Read file error: ./forms.5 No such file or directory
>
>   Can someone please give me some insight into the source of these?
> Is makewhatis trying to read non-existent files? These look almost
> like man pages to me, but what's trying to read them?
>
>   Time to tidy up all the little bugs that have hung around here far
> too long.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
>
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