From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686; Nav) 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:
@reporter, duplicate of bug #44117.
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.
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?
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.