From owner-freebsd-questions  Tue Jan 28 15:07:28 1997
Return-Path: <owner-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA17478
          for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 15:07:28 -0800 (PST)
Received: from lists.dcro.dla.mil ([33.19.104.5])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA17470
          for <questions@freefall.freebsd.org>; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 15:07:23 -0800 (PST)
Received: from tensbum (col-oh6-24.ix.netcom.com [199.183.200.216]) by lists.dcro.dla.mil (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA00845; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 18:02:28 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199701282302.SAA00845@lists.dcro.dla.mil>
Comments: Authenticated sender is <bgy2452@lists.dcro.dla.mil>
From: "Michael P. Deslippe" <bgy2452@lists.dcro.dla.mil>
Organization: Defense Contract Management Command
To: Lars Koeller <lkoeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 18:07:02 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Subject: Re: What does this mean from the nightly run? 
Reply-to: bgy2452@lists.dcro.dla.mil
CC: questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Priority: normal
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> 
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.52)
Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

> 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!