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I have etch stable and I'm getting the following root mails:
Code:
/etc/cron.daily/man-db:
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/ControlPanel.1.gz is a dangling symlink
Code:
# ls -la /usr/share/man/man1/ControlPanel.1.gz
ls: /usr/share/man/man1/ControlPanel.1.gz: No such file or directory
Code:
# cat /etc/cron.daily/man-db
#!/bin/sh
#
# man-db cron daily
set -e
if ! [ -d /var/cache/man ]; then
# Recover from deletion, per FHS.
mkdir -p /var/cache/man
chown man:root /var/cache/man
chmod 2755 /var/cache/man
fi
# expunge old catman pages which have not been read in a week
if [ -d /var/cache/man ]; then
cd /
if ! dpkg-statoverride --list /var/cache/man >/dev/null 2>&1; then
chown -R man /var/cache/man || true # just in case
fi
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /dev/null --startas /bin/sh \
--oknodo --chuid man -- -c \
"find /var/cache/man -type f -name '*.gz' -atime +6 -print0 | \
xargs -r0 rm -f"
fi
# regenerate man database
if [ -x /usr/bin/mandb ]; then
# --pidfile /dev/null so it always starts; mandb isn't really a daemon,
# but we want to start it like one.
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /dev/null \
--startas /usr/bin/mandb --oknodo --chuid man \
-- --no-purge --quiet
fi
exit 0
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