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> I have only tested this manually with run-parts, so I shall put it in |
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> cron.hourly right now and report back later. |
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MANPATH is definitely not set when executing cron scripts like that. I |
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deleted all mandoc.db files and waited for them to be regenerated. Only |
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the one in /usr/share/man was generated, which means that makewhatis |
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fell back to the defaults since MANPATH was empty. |
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Just as I am composing this mail, the cron script that had `source |
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/etc/profile' in it before makewhatis ran, and all the databases are |
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there. |
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Bottom line: MANPATH is not available in cron scripts. |
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Wolfgang Mueller / vehk.de / GPG 0xc543cfce9465f573 |
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