> I have only tested this manually with run-parts, so I shall put it in > cron.hourly right now and report back later.
MANPATH is definitely not set when executing cron scripts like that. I deleted all mandoc.db files and waited for them to be regenerated. Only the one in /usr/share/man was generated, which means that makewhatis fell back to the defaults since MANPATH was empty. Just as I am composing this mail, the cron script that had `source /etc/profile' in it before makewhatis ran, and all the databases are there. Bottom line: MANPATH is not available in cron scripts. -- Wolfgang Mueller / vehk.de / GPG 0xc543cfce9465f573
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