Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed with nice?

[John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

on Saturday 04/14/2007 Mick(michaelkintzios@gmail.com) wrote
 > On Saturday 14 April 2007 03:09, Albert Hopkins wrote:
 > > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 15:59 +0100, Mick wrote:
 > > > On Friday 13 April 2007 15:30, Albert Hopkins wrote:
 > > > > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 14:07 +0100, Mick wrote:
 > > > > > I am getting these errors in /root/dead.letter:
 > > > > > ===========================================
 > > > > > /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: /bin/nice: No such file or
 > > > > > directory
 > > > > > /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: exec: /bin/nice: cannot execute:
 > > > > > No such
 > > > > > file or directory
 > > > > > ===========================================
 > > > >
 > > > > I don't have a /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis, but my
 > > > > /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis says
 > > > >
 > > > >         exec nice makewhatis -u
 > > >
 > > > Hold on, I do not have a /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis either!  My daily is
 > > > just like yours.  Perhaps this is something to do with vixie-cron updated
 > > > yesterday.  Do I need to do anything about it?
 > >
 > > Your email says /etc/cron.weekly so it must have existed at the time it
 > > was generated.  I've never seen a makewhatis in /etc/cron.weekly
 > 
 > I've three different machines and all show the same error in dead.letter.  
 > Like yours none of them has a makewhatis under /etc/cron.weekly.  It doesn't 
 > make sense to me.

I have it as weekly and I just fixed the path -- don't know why nice
 was moved or what else went wrong.  Seems to me it should be
 weekly, anyway.

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