[PLUG] cron.weekly read file errors

Anthony Schlemmer aschlemm at attbi.com
Mon Jun 10 01:47:02 UTC 2002


Here's where our distros start to diverge. Under SuSE Linix there is not 
man page for "makewhatis" and in looking at my system "makewhatis" is a 
Bourne shell script that doesn't even support a "-w" argument. Perhaps 
some with a RedHat installation will be able to help you here.

As best as I can tell it looks like "makewhatis" goes through all of the 
man page files on a system and builds a cache file from those files. 
The usual format for a man page files is <command>.<section-number>. 
You might look at the appropriate man directory for the files that are 
causing the errors.

On my system the man pages reside in /usr/share/man/manX where X is the 
section number. At one time I thought that /usr/man/manX was the place 
where man files reside and I've seen this on non-Linux systems. On 
extra stuff that is installed locally into /usr/local the man pages 
reside in /usr/local/man.

HTH,

Tony


On Sunday 09 June 2002 17:54 pm, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
> > 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,
>
>   makewhatis -w
>
>   It does look like man pages, but I'm not sure from where they are
> being called.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
>
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