makewhatis command not found on cron.daily

[sblantipodi]

Hi,
my cron.daily fails on makewhatis.cron.

/etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron:
/etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron: line 14: /etc/man.config: No such file or directory
/etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron: line 24: makewhatis: command not found

where can I find the rpm of the makewhatis?
in there a name that I can "yum install NAME" ???

thanks.

[TrevorH]

Doesn't seem to exist in el7.

[sblantipodi]

Doesn't seem to exist in el7.

thanks for the reply TrevorH, your help is always precious.
but if it does not exist, why I have a makewhatis.cron in my cron.daily?

can I safely remove the makewhatis.cron?

[TrevorH]

No idea where it came from

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[root@centos7 systemd]# yum provides '*/makewhatis.cron'
Loaded plugins: changelog, langpacks, priorities, versionlock
No matches found

You could try rpm -qf /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron and see what it thinks owns the file. On el6 the same yum provides says it comes from man-1.6f-32.el6.x86_64.

[sblantipodi]

No idea where it came from
You could try rpm -qf /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron and see what it thinks owns the file. On el6 the same yum provides says it comes from man-1.6f-32.el6.x86_64.

Neither my system knows where it came from.

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[root@netstar ~]# rpm -qf /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron
file /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron is not owned by any package

[sblantipodi]

Same problem on cron.monthly.
It doesn't find readahead

Where can I find it?

[stevemowbray]

If the files aren't owned by an rpm then somebody has put these scripts there. I would hazard a guess that they have been copied from a CentOS 6 system by that somebody, and you need to find out who and why and delete the files.