Bug 60285 – makewhatis "ignored strange file names" errors should not go to /dev/tty

Bug 60285 - makewhatis "ignored strange file names" errors should not go to /dev/tty

Summary:	makewhatis "ignored strange file names" errors should not go to /dev/tty

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification:	Retired
Component:	man (Show other bugs)
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Version:	1.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Reported:	2002-02-24 07:53 EST by Jonathan Kamens
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:40 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-02-24 08:38:24 EST
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Description Jonathan Kamens 2002-02-24 07:53:14 EST

I ran makewhatis with both stdout and stderr redirected to a file, and yet I got
a bunch of "ignored strange file name" errors in my xterm window.  This is
because the gawk script explicitly sends these errors to /dev/tty, which is just
broken.  It should use /dev/stderr.

Comment 1 Jonathan Kamens 2002-02-24 08:38:20 EST

I should also mention that the redirect to /dev/tty breaks when makewhatis is
run out of /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron:

awk: cmd. line:54: (FILENAME=- FNR=548) fatal: can't redirect to `/dev/tty' (No
such device or address)

Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-02-25 08:20:31 EST

You're right, fixed in 1.5j-3

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