man whatis missing

rhm.geerts

• December 08, 2017 09:33

Hello. I installed newly a Centos 6 minimal server. Then did a fresh cpanel installation. Now this error occurs:
/etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron: cp: cannot create regular file `/var/cache/man/whatis': No such file or directory /usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 446: /var/cache/man/whatis: No such file or directory chmod: cannot access `/var/cache/man/whatis': No such file or directory
The file /usr/sbin/makewhatis exists but the directory /var/cache/man does not exist, neither does any "whatis" file. The command "man whatis" and "man makewhatis" does work. On our other Cpanel server with Centos 5, there is a /var/cache/man directory with lots of content. How can we fix this?

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  rhm.geerts

  • December 08, 2017 14:51

  Addition: Created a /var/cache/man directory manually and did a yum reinstall man and yum reinstall man pages. Got content in there now, but still no "whatis" file.

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  rpvw

  • December 08, 2017 16:20

  Try running /usr/sbin/makewhatis as root and see if it builds your /var/cache/man/whatis file (can take several minutes to complete)

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  rhm.geerts

  • December 08, 2017 16:41

  Tried running the cron again which only made a 0 byte whatis file. Your solution worked, the whatis file is present and filled now, thank you!

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 08, 2017 17:38

  Hello, I'm glad to see the earlier response helped. I've marked this thread as solved. Thank you.

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