makewhatis wierdness in 4.9-stable

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Kenneth W Cochran wrote:

KWC> Since makewhatis went from Perl to C I get the following output
KWC> in the weekly periodic/maintenance run:
KWC>
KWC> Rebuilding whatis database:
KWC> makewhatis: /usr/local/man/man1/scp.old.1: No such file or directory
KWC> makewhatis: /usr/local/man/man1/ssh-add.old.1: No such file or directory
KWC> makewhatis: /usr/local/man/man1/ssh-agent.old.1: No such file or directory
KWC> makewhatis: /usr/local/man/man1/ssh-keygen.old.1: No such file or directory
KWC> makewhatis: /usr/local/man/man1/ssh.old.1: No such file or directory
KWC>
KWC> Is something "strange" in /etc/*?  Maybe something mergemaster
KWC> didn't quite fix during a cvsup/{make,install}world?

I suppose these are stale symlinks. What do you get by issuing

ls -l /usr/local/man/man1/*.old.1

?

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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