On my desktops, I use a script to run updatedb, followed by mandb, every day or so. This runs from root's fcrontab, so it is one of the first things to get run on a new system. Last night it failed with a message that it could not write to /var/cache/man/something/else - no such file or directory. After running mkdir /var/cache/man I was able to run the script from the commandline.
I haven't needed to create this directory before, and the only place it shows up in my previous desktop build was very late in the build, possibly when mandb was running in the background. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
