Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 09:31:29 -0400 (EDT) From: lowell@world.std.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: misc/18255: whatis(1) doesn't know about /usr/local Message-ID: <200004271331.JAA39410@be-well.ilk.org>
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>Number: 18255
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: makewhatis weekly job doesn't look at /usr/local
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Apr 27 06:40:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Lowell Gilbert
>Release: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
3.4-STABLE, but this probably applies to all versions.
>Description:
The period script that runs makewhatis doesn't have /usr/local in its
path, so manpath(1) doesn't include /usr/local/man, so ports and
packages don't get included in the database. The most obvious fix is
to put /usr/local into the /etc/crontab PATH setting, but that's a bad
idea (because root crontab runs *shouldn't* be running anything from
/usr/local in a default system anyway). Hammering it into the
periodic script that calls makewhatis seems like a better way.
>How-To-Repeat:
As "McClain, Michael" posted to freebsd-questions:
> In FreeBSD 3.4, is makewhatis broken?
> 'man bash' shows the man page, .apropos bash' says nothing appropriate.
Obviously, this will apply to any installed ports or packages.
>Fix:
This isn't very pretty, but cron jobs shouldn't by default be running
anything from /usr/local, so it shouldn't otherwise be in the path.
Better fixes would be fine with me...
*** /etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis Fri Sep 17 00:02:18 1999
--- 320.whatis Thu Apr 27 09:19:32 2000
***************
*** 3,8 ****
--- 3,12 ----
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis,v 1.2.2.1 1999/08/29 14:19:51 peter Exp $
#
+ # root cron jobs don't normally have /usr/local in the PATH;
+ # make sure it gets picked up by manpath
+ PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/bin
+
if [ -x /usr/libexec/makewhatis.local -a -x /usr/bin/manpath ] ; then
echo ""
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