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Title: zcat: stdout: Broken pipe
Post by: Jeff C on April 07, 2002, 07:35:31 PM

Anyone knoew what this is and how to fix it?

/etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis.cron:
zcat: stdout: Broken pipe

TIA - jeff

Title: Re: zcat: stdout: Broken pipe
Post by: dubois on April 07, 2002, 09:59:44 PM

i just got this error also.

Title: Re: zcat: stdout: Broken pipe
Post by: Dan Brown on April 08, 2002, 12:08:40 AM

What happens if you try running makewhatis -w?

Title: Re: zcat: stdout: Broken pipe
Post by: Dan Brown on April 08, 2002, 12:12:11 AM

Looks like you're running a very old version of e-smith.  Why don't you upgrade?

http://www.e-smith.org/bugs/index.php3?op=showBug&bugID=18

Title: Re: zcat: stdout: Broken pipe
Post by: dubois on April 08, 2002, 12:35:25 AM

(speaking for myself), im running 5.12.

    " makewhatis scans the manual page (also known as reference page) trees,
     parses the manual pages, and strips out the NAME section information to
     create the "whatis" database used by apropos(1), man(1), and whatis(1)."

I ran it, hopefully it works

Title: Re: zcat: stdout: Broken pipe
Post by: Dan Brown on April 08, 2002, 12:39:03 AM

Interesting; the bug report I linked to shows that this bug was fixed in SME 5.0, so I'd think you shouldn't be seeing it any more.  What do you get if you rpm -q man?

Title: Re: zcat: stdout: Broken pipe
Post by: Jeff C on April 08, 2002, 12:50:01 AM

I'm running SME5.1.2_U1 and man-1.5i2-6.  Running makewhatis -w -v completes without error.

Any ideas?

-jeff

Title: Re: zcat: stdout: Broken pipe
Post by: Dan Brown on April 08, 2002, 12:55:05 AM

No, except that I have a different version of man on my SME 5.1.2 machine, and I'm pretty sure it's the one that came with SME 5.1.2 (don't have the CD handy to check at the moment):

[root@e-smith cron.weekly]# rpm -q man
man-1.5i2-0.7x.5

No idea if this would make a difference.

Title: Re: zcat: stdout: Broken pipe
Post by: dubois on April 08, 2002, 03:37:27 AM

since i dont ever use man too often at the prompt (you can view man pages online), i just uninstalled it.....

thx dan