Mark,
100%. That's it.
Thanks to both Fred and you I now have the full story.
Unfortunately, i had already sent a follow up question to Freds answer.
That question is now obsolete.
Big thanks to both of you.
Regards
Gustav
Mark Gray wrote:
>
> Gustav Schaffter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > In my cron.weekly, there is a script file named makewhatis.cron. Every
> > week I get a mail from cron, because the makewhatis produces output.
> >
> > So, I tried to execute the command manually, as root.
> >
> > The command 'makewhatis -w' gives the output:
> > Read file error: ./rec.1 No such file or directory
> >
> > I tried 'man makewhatis' but there are no manual entries for makewhatis.
> >
> > Can someone enlighten me as to what 'makewhatis' is?
> >
> > Second, does anyone understand the error message?
>
> Redhat made a mistake when they built the man pages for rec.1
>
> Do (as root):
>
> rm /usr/man/man1/rec.1
> ln -s /usr/man/man1/play.1 /usr/man/man1/rec.1
>
> and all is well.
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