Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/05/02/18:40:19
Hello Igor -
I really can't answer your questions now. I rolled my version of
"makewhatis" back to one with a date of 12/16/2002 and everything works
fine again. As I recall, the permissions on the whatis file were the
usual -rw-r--r--. I know I was shown as the owner. I was able to delete
the file manually using "rm" from within Cygwin. It was always created
just as the makewhatis tool started.
As I said, the older version of makewhatis works without problems.
- Jack
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2003, John R Lyon wrote:
>
>
>>After a recent upgrade of Cygwin, I find that "makewhatis" does not
>>terminate normally.
>>
>>This error message appears twice:
>>
>>/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 355: /var/cache/man/whatis: cannot overwrite
>>existing file
>>
>>and it creates a zero-length file called "whatis" in /var/cache/man.
>>I've removed this file prior to running makewhatis only to have it
>>reappear in its zero-length condition when makewhatis terminates
>>unsuccessfully.
>>
>>This happens on both XP and Win 2000 installations of Cygwin.
>>- Jack
>
>
> Jack,
>
> What are the permissions on that zero-length file? Are you logging in as
> a domain user? Is that user in /etc/passwd? Are all the relevant groups
> in /etc/group? Please attach the output of "cygcheck -svr" as per
> <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, and post the output of "ls -l
> /var/cache/man/whatis" and "ls -ld /var/cache/man".
> Igor
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