Re: makewhatis error

2000-01-29 Thread Gustav Schaffter
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: >

Re: makewhatis error

2000-01-29 Thread Mark Gray
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 t

Re: makewhatis error

2000-01-29 Thread Frederic Herman
It may indicate a broken link. Try running updatedb --verbose >dumpfile and see if it has a problem. Examine the output file to see if this >file/directory generates any updatedb errors. Fred Gustav Schaffter wrote: > > Hi, > > In my cron.weekly, there is a script file named makewhatis.cro