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Re: Anacron errors



On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 11:50:58AM -0400, Rob French wrote:
> I get the following message from anacron everyday. What's the deal?
> Are these man pages that were read by root, thus the cache files can't
> be deleted by anacron?
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/man-db:
> rm: cannot unlink `/var/cache/man/cat1/tar.1.gz': Permission denied
> rm: cannot unlink `/var/cache/man/cat1/cp.1.gz': Permission denied
[...]

What are the permissions on those files as read by 'ls -l'? What version
of man-db are you running?

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



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