A. Khattri wrote: > Every once in awhile I get an email from cron about failed compression of > man pages (?) - any ideas what causes this? See: > > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && > /usr/sbin/run-crons > > bzcat: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. > bzcat: Broken pipe Input file = /usr/share/man/man1/./eix.1.bz2, > output file = (stdout) > > bzcat: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows.bzcat: > Broken pipe > Input file = /usr/share/man/man1/./vdir.1.bz2, output file = > (stdout) [..]
This is probably caused by /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis trying to decrompress man-pages to scan them for its database. * Do these files really exist? * Have you tried to decompress them to stdout manually (# bzcat <file>)? * Are they really bzip2-files? (Check with # file <file>) * Ist your disk full? Try reproducing the error by running # makewhatis -w -v &> makewhatis.log as root and check the logfile. Bye, Daniel -- use PGP key @ http://www.pgp.net/wwwkeys.html gpg --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0xBB9D4887
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