Bug 105594
| Summary: | makewhatis chokes when it sees a directory under manpath | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <cchen> |
| Component: | man | Assignee: | Eido Inoue <havill> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 9 | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 1.5k-12 | Doc Type: | Enhancement |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-10-09 22:14:08 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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find fixed so that only regular files (or symlinks to regular files) fitting the pattern of "*.[1-9nl]" or "*.[1-9nl].gz" will be added to the whatis db |
Description of problem: We use RCS to manage our software revision and thus there is an RCS directory under our /project/man/man1 directory. When we run makewhatis against /project/man, makewhatis only processes the result from the find command up to the RCS directory, then exits. Can makewhatis be modified to ignore directories? Here is the result from the makewhatis cron job: awk: cmd. line:10: (FILENAME=- FNR=322) fatal: file `./RCS' is a directory Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): man-1.5k-6 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Incomplete whatis database. Expected results: Additional info: