Re: man-db

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 06:08:17PM +0200, Peter Palmreuther wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 26, 2001 at 5:15:03 PM, 
> you wrote (at least in part):
> > I am having problems with man-db, could someone please advise on why this is
> > happening & any solutions, pointers I can try.
> ...
> > run-parts: /etc/cron.weekly/man-db exited with return code 3

What version of man-db is this?

> my '/etc/cron.weekly/man-db' contains only one _executed_ line:
> 
> /usr/bin/nice /usr/bin/mandb --create 2>/dev/null > /dev/null
> 
> if yours does too try this line without the '2>/dev/null >/dev/null' or even
> with an additional '--debug' so it looks like this
> 
> /usr/bin/nice /usr/bin/mandb --create
> or
> /usr/bin/nice /usr/bin/mandb --create --debug
> 
> execute is manually and see what 'mandb' has to moan about.

I'll second that. With exit code 3 (CHILD_FAIL), chances are that gzip
is failing to decompress a man page somehow.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]