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start-stop-daemon: user `man' not found

hi

I have debian sarge stable installed and get this error:

Code:

/etc/cron.daily/man-db:

chown: `man': invalid user

start-stop-daemon: user `man' not found



run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/man-db exited with return code 2

# vi /etc/cron.daily/man-db

Code:

#!/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

knows someone howto solve this problem ?

I'm not sure about Debian but in general Linux systems have a user account named man and a user group named man. Use the grep command to search the /etc/passwd file for the user account record for the man account.

Code:

grep man /etc/passwd

man:x:13:62:Manual pages viewer:/var/cache/man:/bin/bash

While your doing this you may as well check to see that you have a user group called man.

Code:

grep man /etc/group

man:x:62:

it seems, I don't have man user or group:

Code:

# grep man /etc/passwd

# grep man /etc/group

should I create ?

I would try the following:

Code:

dpkg-reconfigure -phigh man-db

I don't know if this is a correct way, but after:

Code:

# useradd -d /var/cache/man -s /bin/sh man

it seems to be solved.