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Bug 45646

Summary: Cron generated errors
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <mal>
Component: manAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Need Real Name 2001-06-24 15:08:59 UTC
Cron generated errors in man-1.5h1-10

From root  Sun May 27 04:04:31 2001
Return-Path: <root>
Received: (from root@localhost)
        by localhost.localdomain (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f4R829d00823
        for root; Sun, 27 May 2001 04:02:09 -0400
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 04:02:09 -0400
Message-Id: <200105270802.f4R829d00823>
From: root (Cron Daemon)
To: root
Subject: Cron <root@cmpq> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>

/etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron:

/usr/sbin/makewhatis: /var/cache/man/whatis780: Is a directory
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: /var/cache/man/whatis780: Is a directory
sed: read error on {standard input}: Is a directory
rm: `/var/cache/man/whatis780' is a directory
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: /var/cache/man/whatis780: Is a directory
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: /var/cache/man/whatis780: Is a directory
sed: read error on {standard input}: Is a directory
rm: `/var/cache/man/whatis780' is a directory
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: /var/cache/man/whatis780: Is a directory
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: /var/cache/man/whatis780: Is a directory
sed: read error on {standard input}: Is a directory
rm: `/var/cache/man/whatis780' is a directory
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: /var/cache/man/whatis780: Is a directory
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: /var/cache/man/whatis780: Is a directory
sed: read error on {standard input}: Is a directory
rm: `/var/cache/man/whatis780' is a directory

Comment 1 Need Real Name 2001-07-02 18:47:57 UTC
The problem arises from time to time.
I suspect it may be caused by the same problem as in bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45647
when, as I think, logrotate was somehow started twice.

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2001-07-02 18:53:51 UTC
I seems was wrong In my previous comment. Please ignore my previous comment.

Comment 3 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-07-03 11:34:52 UTC
Thanks, fixed in 1.5i2-2

Comment 4 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-07-03 11:36:03 UTC
*** Bug 45827 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***