Bug 18383

Summary:	readonly /usr breaks makewhatis
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Thilo Mezger <thilo.mezger>
Component:	man	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	dr, kroenner
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Description Thilo Mezger 2000-10-05 07:18:50 UTC

I like to mount /usr read-only for safetly reasons but makewhatis needs to
have a
writeable /usr/share/man/whatis database.

I always thought that it should always be possible to mount /usr read-only
(I think
that's what the file-system standard says).

Should the "whatis" files move to /var/cache/man?
Or should /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis check for writeable "whatis" files?

Not really a problem but "nice to have"... :-)

Comment 1 Daniel Roesen 2000-10-05 11:46:11 UTC

I consider this not as an enhancement request, but a real bug. /usr is supposed 
to be readonly mountable as per FHS.

Priority/severity adjusted to normal/normal.

Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-10-10 21:14:34 UTC

Fixed; the whatis db has been moved to /var/cache/man.