Bug 4321

Summary: /var/lock/makewhatis.lock s/b removed at boot
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Michael K. Johnson 1999-08-02 21:54:23 UTC
If a machine crashes during a makewhatis pass, the
apropos database will never be recreated.

An alternative solution is to make the makewhatis
scripts remove the lockfile if it is more than n
hours old (for some positive integer n...)

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-02 22:38:59 UTC
it is removed at boot in the latest RaW Hide initscripts,
as *anything* in /var/lock is removed...