Re: [suse-security] manpath hanging (was:Re: SuSE Security Announcement - aaa_base - UPDATE)
The manpath utility is run from cron... if you do an "strace -p <pid of manpath>", you'll likely see that it gets stuck in a loop for directories that don't exist, yet it expects to find.
I'll do that next time, but your explanation doesn't really say why it only happens sometimes (I don't think I changed $MANPATH), or why it works when run from the shell with the same args as taken from the ps output? Whatever, of course it shouldn't hang... (not sure whether this ought to go on the security list though) Volker
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
I'll do that next time, but your explanation doesn't really say why it only happens sometimes (I don't think I changed $MANPATH), or why it works when run from the shell with the same args as taken from the ps output?
Manpath does nothing if $MANPATH is set. I think aaa_base unset $MANPATH in the system profile so the manpath program gets activated. If it hangs randomly for you, I don't have an idea though. Cheers Robert -- Robert Casties --------------------- http://philoscience.unibe.ch/~casties History & Philosophy of Science Tel: +41/31/631-8505 Room: 216 Institute for Exact Sciences Sidlerstrasse 5, CH-3012 Bern Uni Bern (PGP key on homepage: D7 2B DE 64 2D 65 16 A0)
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