Fw: [cobalt-users] RE: RAQ4r - zcat: stdout: Broken pipe

["Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Stephanie Sullivan" <ses@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RE: RAQ4r - zcat: stdout: Broken pipe


> Stephanie wrote;
> <snip>
> > I did a "find / -name *.1.gz -cmin -600" at about 7:00AM and noticed that
> > the following 5 files were changed in that timeframe:
> > /usr/man/man1/dig.1.gz
> > /usr/man/man1/host.1.gz
> > /usr/man/man1/crontab.1.gz
> > /usr/man/man1/dnskeygen.1.gz
> > /usr/man/man1/dnsquery.1.gz
> 
> > This led me to /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron and that to
> > /usr/sbin/makewhatis which is a script. A quick "grep zcat
> > /usr/sbin/makewhatis" found:
> >               if (use_zcat) {
> >               if (use_zcat) {
> >               use_zcat = match(filename,"\\.Z$") ||
> >               if(use_zcat) {
> >               if (use_zcat) {
> >                 pipe_cmd = "zcat " filename;
> 
> I belive you did an excellent job of tracking the problem
> to /usr/sbin/makewhatis which is a script.
> 
> I wonder if maybe you installed the updates out of sequence.
> Just a thought, not accusing you of anything ;-).
> It just seems odd that my RaQ3 has no troubling issues.
> 
> Gerald
> 
>