Bug 45105

Summary:	'cat' directories vanished in RC2
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Michal Jaegermann <michal>
Component:	man	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2001-06-20 03:38:06 UTC

The first thing after update to RC2 Seawolf-gold one is greeted with the
following message in a root mailbox ( not counting this  - see #44643

/etc/cron.daily/sysstat:

rm: `/var/log/sa' is a directory

)

Subject: Anacron job 'cron.daily'

/etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron:

find: /var/cache/man/whatis: No such file or directory
find: /var/cache/man/whatis: No such file or directory
find: /var/cache/man/whatis: No such file or directory
find: /var/cache/man/whatis: No such file or directory
find: /var/cache/man/whatis: No such file or directory
find: /var/cache/man/whatis: No such file or directory
find: /var/cache/man/whatis: No such file or directory
find: /var/cache/man/whatis: No such file or directory
find: /var/cache/man/whatis: No such file or directory
find: /var/cache/man/whatis: No such file or directory
/etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch:

error: lstat() of directory /var/cache/man/X11R6/cat? failed: No such file
or directory

Indeed, there is no /var/cache/man/X11R6/cat? or any other directory
under /var/cache/man and one would expect quite a few of these.
'rpm -ql man | grep var' shows that indeed all these 'cat' directories
were removed.

Comment 1 Phil Copeland 2001-06-24 17:25:37 UTC

Michal, I've tried this on the current gold CD's on a full install

[root@dhcpd141 alpha]# /etc/cron.daily/sysstat
[root@dhcpd141 alpha]# 
(seems ok)

[root@dhcpd141 alpha]# /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron
[root@dhcpd141 alpha]# 
(seems ok)

[root@dhcpd141 alpha]# /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
error: lstat() of directory /var/cache/man/X11R6/cat? failed: No such file or
directory

[root@dhcpd141 alpha]# rpm -ql man | grep var
/var/cache/man

one entry,..

Comment 2 Michal Jaegermann 2001-06-24 20:25:59 UTC

> [root@dhcpd141 alpha]# rpm -ql man | grep var
>  /var/cache/man

> one entry,..

Yes, indeed.  But there should be a whole long list.  At least
/etc/man.config claims so by setting FHS option.  And try to
run /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron "by hand".

Comment 3 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-06-25 14:48:40 UTC

It was intentional - preformatted man pages have been the cause of way too 
many security problems in the last couple of months.
They're now turned off by default.

Comment 4 Michal Jaegermann 2001-06-25 15:54:36 UTC

In that case /usr/sbin/makewhatis should be fixed not to attempt to visit
non-existent directories.  Apart of that this seems to badly affect 'apropos'
and this is just plain BUG - intended or not.  OK, I will enter the later
as a separate one.