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Date:      Tue, 25 Sep 2018 21:30:16 +0000
From:      tonycheed@vfemail.net
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   freebsd-update: following files will be updated ... /usr/share/man/whatis
Message-ID:  <0ab06e67ddbd502970546dd8b7a84f9c@vfemail.net>

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Hello

Some time ago I have added this:

@daily	root	freebsd-update cron

to my '/etc/crontab'. (Just in case I miss security, errata etc. 
notification e-mails, I still get the nightly e-mail directly from the 
host...)

Ever since then I get a mail every night telling me a new version of 
'whatis' is available (actually, almost every night -- after real 
updates there is silence for a few days):

---

domain.tld security updates
September 23, 2018 12:44 AM
 From: «Charlie Root» <root@domain.tld>
To: root@domain.tld

Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 10.4-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... 
done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

The following files will be updated as part of updating to 
10.4-RELEASE-p12:
/usr/share/man/whatis

---

Only that file, nothing else, always! Does anyone know what is whatis 
doing here, why and what to do about it?


Cheers
Tony

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