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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
