Armin K. wrote: > On 02/13/2014 09:50 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: >> 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 >> > > mandb seems to work here if /var/cache/man directory is not present.
Yes, that works for me too. mandb creates the directory if it does not already exist, but, of course, you need to run mandb as root. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
