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.
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,..
> [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".
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.
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.