If you strace the hanging manpath process, you will find that it is looking for a couple of libraries. The problem lies in /etc/manpath.config The libraries for me were /usr/man/allman and /opt/sniff/man logon as root and delete the lines reading MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/man/allman and MANDATORY_MANPATH /opt/sniff/man from the file /etc/manpath.config and the problem should disappear Hope this helps //Anders On Fri, 19 May 2000, Prasanna Krishnan[SMTP:PRAS@LINUX.CA] wrote:
Jean-François Bocquet @free.fr wrote:
Hi SuSE users,
I recently upgraded the following packages of my SuSE Linux 6.4 distribution from the web server www.suse.com:
aaa_base gpm kpackage xfstt xshared firewals kbase scanlogd wvdial yast
and I modified my /etc/passwd file so that users which had /tmp for home directory to use /var/lib as recommended by the installation process.
The problem is that now each cron daily job ran at midnight leaves a task named 'manpath' wich takes about 100% cpu time.
I tryed to look for what is done by the cron daily scripts and I also tried to disable REINIT_MANDB but I didn't find any solution.
Does anybody can help ?
-- Jean-François Bocquet
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Welcome to the club! :-) A few more people have posted about this problem. What I did was to place an entry in my crontab which killed the manpath. I know this is not a proper solution for the problem, but it doesn't leave manpath burning up my CPU all the time. Here's the line from my /etc/crontab:
30 0 * * * root killall -9 manpath
I put it around the middle of the page, before the comment that says to check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, etc. HTH
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