on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:31:40PM -0400, Eugene Tyurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello, > > A few weeks ago, perhaps, I upgraded something on my woody box - and > now I can't satisfy the mandb gods. Mandb runs through cron.weekly > until I kill it - for a few days. I tried to run it manually to > create a db from scratch, but the same thing - it gets stuck. > > Here's the tail of the log (mandb -d -c): > > free_hashtab: 2088 entries, 1301 (62%) unique > done. > catpath: /var/cache/man, manpath: /usr/share/man > Testing for existence: /usr/share/man/man1/ps.1 > create_db(/usr/local/man): /var/cache/man/oldlocal/20219 > Testing /usr/local/man for new files > catpath: /var/cache/man/oldlocal, manpath: /usr/local/man > > It's been sitting like this for at least 12 hours... Any ideas?
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