Bug 48762
| Summary: | man does not create cat files even if told to do | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Henning Schmiedehausen <hps> |
| Component: | man | Assignee: | Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | CC: | gedetil |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-07-11 16:56:39 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Another related issue is that the "whatis" databases now get updated right in the source man directories, rather than in cache directories. For example... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 497277 Jul 11 04:09 /usr/man/whatis This is a problem on systems where /usr is mounted read-only. All such variable data should be somewhere under /var, and not within /usr itself. Fixed in the current erratum |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19-1t i686) Description of problem: man cannot create cat files in /var/catman because of missing subdirectories. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. upgrade to the already well known man-1.5i2-0.6x 2. tell man to create "cat" pages by commenting out "NOCACHE" in /etc/man.config 3. man ls 4. ls -la /var/catman --- it is empty 5. as root mkdir /var/catman/cat1 6. man ls 7. ls -la /var/catman/cat1 # ls -la /var/catman/cat1 total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 11 16:10 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 11 16:09 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root root 2700 Jul 11 16:10 ls.1.gz => the man program does not create the needed directories and the man package does not contain the needed directories. Catch 22 Actual Results: The man program can not write the created cat pages because the needed subdirs are missing Expected Results: man should either create the subdirs itself or the man package should contain all necessary subdirectories. Additional info: And yet another bug in the innocent looking yet really evil man-1.5i2 update from Hell. Please, don't ever again tell me that you actually test this stuff. This bug is stupid.