Cron <root at aspartic> run-parts /etc/cron.daily

[oxfordmusic.net]

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>> /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron:
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>> zcat: stdout: Broken pipe
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>> zcat: stdout: Broken pipe
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>>> I've recently been getting these from the nightly cron jobs.  What would
>>> be causing this?
>
> yes, i got this message this morning from cron (on RHEL3). i ran some 
> scheduled errata from RHN so it may have been caused by that?
> any gurus out there got any ideas?
>

as an update to this for the archives, i got this mail again this morning 
from cron.weekly but i have not had it again from cron.daily. my guess is 
that it occurs the first time a 'makewhatis.con' script is run after certain 
software updates.

andy