Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3EB170B7.1010206@sie.arizona.edu> Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 12:08:39 -0700 From: John R Lyon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: A bug in makewhatis? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/