Hey Guys, I am getting this error on a weekly cron job, I get this in my email every monday from the cron daemon.

/etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis.cron:


zcat: stdout: Broken pipe

zcat: stdout: Broken pipe

zcat: stdout: Broken pipe

zcat: stdout: Broken pipe

zcat: stdout: Broken pipe


and the file is 88k so the "zcat: stdout: Broken pipe" continues for a while.


here is my makewhatis.cron script....


[root@host cron.weekly]# cat makewhatis.cron
#!/bin/bash

LOCKFILE=/var/lock/makewhatis.lock

# the lockfile is not meant to be perfect, it's just in case the
# two makewhatis cron scripts get run close to each other to keep
# them from stepping on each other's toes. The worst that will
# happen is that they will temporarily corrupt the database...
[ -f $LOCKFILE ] && exit 0
trap "{ rm -f $LOCKFILE; exit 255; }" EXIT
touch $LOCKFILE
makewhatis -w
exit 0

[root@nsyd cron.weekly]# ls -la /var/lock/makewhatis.lock
ls: /var/lock/makewhatis.lock: No such file or directory

[root@host cron.weekly]#

Does this script fail when you run it from a command yourself?

Hey thanks for the re:



[root@host cron.weekly]# ./makewhatis.cron
zcat: ./cancel.1.gz: No such file or directory
[root@host cron.weekly]#