[PLUG] cron.weekly read file errors

[Shannon C. Dealy]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, 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?

Sometimes these kinds of errors are due to dangling symlinks trying to be
indexed as files.  In other words, if you search your man paths for these
files are all of them symbolic links which point to nothing?


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