On Wed, 10 May 2000, Gregor Hlawacek wrote:
Today Ruediger Oertel slept on the keyboard and thought about Re:...
As stated in my other mail, manpath is called as "unset MANPATH ; manpath -qg 2>/dev/null" by /usr/sbin/makewhatis which in turn is called from /etc/cron.daily/aaa_base_do_mandb
The problem seems to be that makewhatis is missing, the thing is that it worked befor upgrading the aaa-base package. It looks like the script trys to call makewhatis for ever and ever.
any idea what could have happend? Hm, to simplify the problem, what about: /etc/cron.daily/aaa_base_do_mandb:
- # - # some applications need whatis database. If makewhatis exists, call it - # - if [ -x /usr/sbin/makewhatis -a -w /usr/man ] ; then - unset MANPATH manpath - manpath=/usr/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man - for DIR in /usr/openwin/man /usr/man/allman /usr/man/de ; do - test -d $DIR && manpath=$manpath:$DIR - done - MANPATH=$manpath - export manpath MANPATH - - /usr/sbin/makewhatis - fi + if [ -x /usr/sbin/makewhatis ] ; then + /usr/sbin/makewhatis + fi Does this change anything ? -- with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen), Ruediger Oertel (ro@suse.de) ---------------------------------------------------------- does "DONT PANIC" give a hint ?