Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 18:07:02 -0500 From: "Michael P. Deslippe" <bgy2452@lists.dcro.dla.mil> To: Lars Koeller <lkoeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: What does this mean from the nightly run? Message-ID: <199701282302.SAA00845@lists.dcro.dla.mil> In-Reply-To: <199701281541.QAA03874@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> References: bgy2452's message of Tue, 28 Jan 1997 09:01:20 -0500. <199701281356.IAA02541@lists.dcro.dla.mil>
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> To: bgy2452@lists.dcro.dla.mil > Subject: Re: What does this mean from the nightly run? > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 16:41:55 +0100 > From: Lars Koeller <lkoeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> > ----------- > > Hi again! > > In message <199701281356.IAA02541@lists.dcro.dla.mil>, > "Michael P. Deslippe" writes: > > >I guess you're misunderstanding me. Below is the output from running > >the command as root: > > > > su-2.00# makewhatis /usr/share/man > > su: /usr/bin/makewhatis: No such file or directory > > > >I assume "No such file or directory" is not the normal output, thus I > >assume it is not running. The QMAIL program creates a manpages > >directory where I specified (/var/qmail/man), so I tried to create a > >WHATIS database there - which obviously didn't work. However, the > >MAN directory is the default location for MANPAGE constructs when > >QMAil is installed. > > O.k. now I have it! > > When I execute makewhatis as root, and the directory does not exist, I get: > > root@odie:~/ > 567 # makewhatis /usr/locall/man > /usr/locall/man/whatis.tmp: No such file or directory > > after this I execute > > root@odie:~/ > 569 # mkdir /usr/locall > root@odie:~/ > 570 # mkdir /usr/locall/man > root@odie:~/ > 571 # makewhatis /usr/locall/man > root@odie:~/ > 572 # ll /usr/locall/man > total 2 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 28 16:36 . > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jan 28 16:36 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 28 16:36 whatis > > no problem! > > Do you use 'dosu' ? Perhaps this is the problem! > > Try and error! > > Lars > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Internet: | Lars Koeller > Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.Uni-Rostock.DE | Department of Physics > ftp://odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de | University of Rostock > PGP-key: | Germany > http://www.nic.surfnet.nl/pgp/pks-toplev.html | > > ----------- FreeBSD, what else? ---- http://www.freebsd.org ------------ Well, I did the identical series of commands as you, but my result was different: su-2.00# mkdir /usr/locall su-2.00# mkdir /usr/locall/man su-2.00# makewhatis /usr/locall/man su: /usr/bin/makewhatis: No such file or directory su-2.00# ls -laF /usr/locall/man total 2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 28 17:52 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Jan 28 17:52 ../ su-2.00# Got me stumped!
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