makewhatis in /etc/cron.weekly issues the following email error. read file error ./rec.1 no such file or directory makewhatis in cron.daily does not. The only difference is that the weekly executes a -w the daily executes a -u -w.
See bug# 8372 for the cause. The problem is actually in the sox package and is caused by an invalid symlink in the package.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5669 ***