Bug 50403

Summary:	/var/cache/man subdirectories removed after upgrading to man-1.5i2
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	mrnolta
Component:	man	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	hjl
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Description mrnolta 2001-07-30 22:33:02 UTC

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Description of problem:
After upgrading to man-1.5i2, I get the following message once a day:

Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 04:02:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Cron Daemon <root@xxx>
To: root@xxx
Subject: Cron <root@xxx> run-parts /etc/cron.daily

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

There are no subdirectories under /var/cache/man/, and /var/catman does not
exist.

This problem occurs on both 6.2 and 7.1 boxes.

How reproducible:
Didn't try

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2001-07-31 00:36:35 UTC

@reporter, duplicate of bug #44117.

Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-07-31 09:33:58 UTC

Intentional. Preformatted man pages have been the cause of around 100 security
problems in the past, so we've decided to get rid of them.

Comment 3 hjl 2001-08-05 15:07:13 UTC

But on RedHat 7.1,

# cat /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch 240 /tmp
/usr/sbin/tmpwatch 720 /var/tmp
[ -d /var/cache/man ] && /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -f 240
/var/cache/man/{X11R6/cat?,cat?,local/cat?}
[ -d /var/catman ] && /usr/sbin/tmpwatch -f 240
/var/catman/{X11R6/cat?,cat?,local/cat?}

There is why I keep getting the email from
cron. Shouldn't there be a tmpwatch update?

Comment 4 Ben Levenson 2002-01-26 00:22:20 UTC

fixed w/ current errata tmpwatch errata: tmpwatch-2.8-0.7.x.
please download from 
ftp.beta.redhat.com or use Red Hat Network
to update your system.