Bug 105594 - makewhatis chokes when it sees a directory under manpath
Summary: makewhatis chokes when it sees a directory under manpath
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: man
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-09-25 21:30 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-03-27 04:10 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: 1.5k-12
Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2003-10-09 22:14:08 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2003-09-25 21:30:24 UTC 
Description of problem:

We use RCS to manage our software revision and thus there is
an RCS directory under our /project/man/man1 directory.
When we run makewhatis against /project/man, makewhatis only
processes the result from the find command up to the RCS
directory, then exits.  Can makewhatis be modified to ignore
directories?

Here is the result from the makewhatis cron job:

awk: cmd. line:10: (FILENAME=- FNR=322) fatal: file `./RCS' is a directory

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

man-1.5k-6

How reproducible:

always

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Actual results:

Incomplete whatis database.

Expected results:


Additional info:
Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2003-10-09 22:14:08 UTC 
find fixed so that only regular files (or symlinks to regular files) fitting the
pattern of "*.[1-9nl]" or "*.[1-9nl].gz" will be added to the whatis db
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