Re: [cobalt-users] Weekly Cron Error zcat

["Jonathan Michaelson" <michaelsonjd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Joshua Kim wrote:
>
> > nothing fancy
> >
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root           51 Sep  2  1999 logrotate
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          402 Jul 27  2000 makewhatis.cron
> > -rwx------   1 root     root          293 Mar 14 04:03
> > scheduled-backup.admin
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root           99 Dec 18 09:16 slocate.cron
> > -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          221 Oct  5 13:39 tmpwatch
> > -rwx------   1 root     root          130 Dec  5 01:25 vacuumdb
>
> Hmm..
>
> Can you run the scheduled-backup.admin by hand and see
> if that generates the zcat errors?

The problem is in the makewhatis.cron job:

[root@www /root]# /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis.cron

zcat: stdout: Broken pipe

zcat: stdout: Broken pipe
.
.
.
zcat: stdout: Broken pipe

zcat: stdout: Broken pipe

I just ran the job on a RaQ4 wnad it was fine, but the above was on a RaQ3
with all the latest packages.

Regards,
Jonathan Michaelson