Hi,
I run a system with a nfs mounted r/o /usr/local partition, and was getting
really annoying messages from cron about /usr/sbin/makewhatis trying to build
the whatis database where it could not write. A quick hack fixed the problem,
but seeing as this should be a fairly common occurrence, I thought I would
share a patch in hopes of getting this committed to the script permanently.
The script was not obvious about a maintainer, so I figured that this was as
good place as any. Let me know if there is some where better to send it.
Thanks,
- Rob
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--- /usr/sbin/makewhatis Mon Nov 22 14:38:58 1999
+++ /usr/sbin/makewhatis.new Mon Nov 22 14:38:08 1999
@@ -60,6 +60,20 @@
sections="1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 n l"
+# function to test if file system is read only
+is_readonly(){
+ if [ x"$1" = x ]; then
+ return 0
+ fi
+ testdir=`df -P $1 | $AWK ' /\// {print $6}'`
+ mount | grep "$testdir .*(ro," > /dev/null
+ if [ "$?" = 0 ] ; then
+ return 1
+ fi
+ return 0
+}
+
+
for name in $*
do
if [ -n "$setsections" ]; then
@@ -118,7 +132,9 @@
eval path="\$$pages"path
for mandir in $path
do
+ if `is_readonly $mandir` ; then
cp /dev/null $mandir/whatis
+ fi
done
done
fi
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