On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 07:11:23PM -0400, anthony wrote: > Execution of man-db during cron daily fails with the following message: > > /etc/cron.daily/man-db: > fopen: Permission denied > run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/man-db exited with return code 2 > > > Troubleshooting actions taken: > The man-db script contains the following command: > > start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /dev/null \ > --startas /usr/bin/mandb --oknodo --chuid man \ > --iosched_idle \ > -- --no-purge --quiet > > Executing this command as root from the command line results in the > following error: > fopen: Permission denied
Please install strace and run this as root: strace -f -o ssd.trace -s 1024 start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /dev/null --startas /usr/bin/mandb --oknodo --chuid man --iosched_idle -- --no-purge --quiet Then reply to this message attaching the file ssd.trace. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
