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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Makewhatis Broken?
Date: 2 Feb 1997 21:51:20 GMT
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tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks) wrote:

> I ran the makewhatis with 5.002 and it said somethin odd..
> I'll look at it in the error logs again... it just core dumped on me in 
> the /etc/weekly script though.. when I ran it separately it did something 
> else..

This rather looks like a Perl bug, not like a problem with makewhatis.

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cheers, J"org

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