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On Thu, 1 May 2003, John R Lyon wrote:
After a recent upgrade of Cygwin, I find that "makewhatis" does not terminate normally.
This error message appears twice:
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 355: /var/cache/man/whatis: cannot overwrite existing file
and it creates a zero-length file called "whatis" in /var/cache/man. I've removed this file prior to running makewhatis only to have it reappear in its zero-length condition when makewhatis terminates unsuccessfully.
This happens on both XP and Win 2000 installations of Cygwin. - Jack
Jack,
What are the permissions on that zero-length file? Are you logging in as a domain user? Is that user in /etc/passwd? Are all the relevant groups in /etc/group? Please attach the output of "cygcheck -svr" as per <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, and post the output of "ls -l /var/cache/man/whatis" and "ls -ld /var/cache/man". Igor
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