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Re: KSR[T] Advisory #3: updatedb / crontabs (fwd)

Christian Hudon wrote:
> 
> We're using makewhatis and updatedb in our default crontab entries,
>  no?

Speaking of makewhatis, No.
Debian doesn't use the package man (and its script makewhatis).

Debian uses mandb (a C program setuid man.root) to write the whatis
database in /var/catman tree which is writable only by owner (user man).
man uses tempnam(3) for its temporary files.

The man package (maintained by A.E.Brouwer) which contains the
makewhatis command is not available in debian format.


Fabrizio Polacco -- man-db maintainer
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