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
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: man
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: wdovlrrw
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-02-24 12:53 UTC by Jonathan Kamens
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-02-24 13:38:24 UTC
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Description Jonathan Kamens 2002-02-24 12:53:14 UTC 
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 13:38:20 UTC 
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 13:20:31 UTC 
You're right, fixed in 1.5j-3
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