It's start-stop-daemon that is returning the error. Perhaps the '-- pidfile /dev/null' behavior changed?


sid:~# /bin/sh -v /etc/cron.daily/man-db  2>&1 | tail -20
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
mandb: waitpid failed: No child processes
sid:~#




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