SOLVED man whatis missing

[rhm.geerts]

Hello.

I installed newly a Centos 6 minimal server.
Then did a fresh cpanel installation.

Now this error occurs:

/etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron:

cp: cannot create regular file `/var/cache/man/whatis': No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/makewhatis: line 446: /var/cache/man/whatis: No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/var/cache/man/whatis': No such file or directory

The file /usr/sbin/makewhatis exists but the directory /var/cache/man does not exist, neither does any "whatis" file.
The command "man whatis" and "man makewhatis" does work.

On our other Cpanel server with Centos 5, there is a /var/cache/man directory with lots of content.

How can we fix this?

 

[rhm.geerts]

Addition: Created a /var/cache/man directory manually and did a yum reinstall man and yum reinstall man pages.
Got content in there now, but still no "whatis" file.

 

[rpvw]

Try running /usr/sbin/makewhatis as root and see if it builds your /var/cache/man/whatis file (can take several minutes to complete)

 

[rhm.geerts]

Tried running the cron again which only made a 0 byte whatis file.

Your solution worked, the whatis file is present and filled now, thank you!

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

I'm glad to see the earlier response helped. I've marked this thread as solved.

Thank you.