#2051 man page search fails on Mandrake 10.1

[Edward Rudd]

doing a man page search on mandrake 10.1 fails to find
any results.

man -k test
and
man -k 'test'
yield results from the command line but when webmin
executes that it returns nothing.

I put pieces of debugging code in the search.cgi and
the command is being set correctly to "man -k 'test'".
but the return from the command withinn webmin is
test: nothing appropriate

Also the default manpath for mandrake within webmin is
set to /usr/man where as Mandrake users /usr/share/man
(at least in 10.1 it does)

[Jamie Cameron]

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If you run the command
man -k test
at the shell prompt, what exactly does it output?

[Edward Rudd]

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root]# man -k test
ExtUtils::testlib (3pm) - add blib/* directories to @INC
filetest (3pm) - Perl pragma to control the
filetest permission operators
floppyd (1) - floppy daemon for remote access
to floppy drive floppyd_installtest - tests whether floppyd
is installed and running
floppyd_installtest (1) - tests whether floppyd is
installed and running
imtest (1) - interactive IMAP test program
lmtptest (1) - interactive LMTP test program
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Hashcash (3pm) - perform
hashcash verification tests
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::SPF (3pm) - perform SPF
verification tests
mbadblocks (1) - tests a floppy disk, and marks
the bad blocks in the FAT
Memoize::ExpireFile (3pm) - test for Memoize expiration
semantics
Memoize::ExpireTest (3pm) - test for Memoize expiration
semantics
mtoolstest (1) - tests and displays the configuration
mupdatetest (1) - interactive MUPDATE test program
nntptest (1) - interactive NNTP test program
pam_selinux_check (8) - login program to test
pam_selinux_check
pop3test (1) - interactive POP3 test program
qmqp-sink (8) - multi-threaded QMQP test server
qmqp-source (8) - multi-threaded QMQP test generator
sivtest (1) - interactive MANAGESIEVE test program
smtp-sink (8) - multi-threaded SMTP/LMTP test server
smtp-source (8) - multi-threaded SMTP/LMTP test
generator
smtptest (1) - interactive SMTP test program
speed (1) - test library performance
test (1) - check file types and compare values
Test (3pm) - provides a simple framework
for writing test scripts
Test::Builder (3pm) - Backend for building test
libraries
test [builtins] (1) - bash built-in commands, see bash(1)
Test::Harness (3pm) - Run Perl standard test scripts
with statistics
Test::Harness::Assert (3pm) - simple assert
Test::Harness::Iterator (3pm) - Internal Test::Harness Iterator
Test::Harness::Straps (3pm) - detailed analysis of test results
Test::More (3pm) - yet another framework for
writing test scripts
Test::Simple (3pm) - Basic utilities for writing tests
Test::Tutorial (3pm) - A tutorial about writing
really basic tests
udevtest (8) - simulates a udev run to test the
configured rules
unzip (1) - list, test and extract
compressed files in a ZIP archive
validate [File::CheckTree] (3pm) - run many filetest checks
on a tree
XS::APItest (3pm) - Test the perl C API
XS::Typemap (3pm) - module to test the XS typemaps
distributed with perl

[Edward Rudd]

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Or more specifically the orignal man page I was trying to
search for

root]# man -k saslauthd
saslauthd (8) - sasl authentication server

[Jamie Cameron]

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Does adjusting the 'Manual pages directories' option on the
Module Config page help with this problem? Perhaps you could
set it to /usr/share/man

[Edward Rudd]

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I had already tried that.. it didn't solve the issue.
which you are adding /usr/man and /usr/share/man in the
set_manpath so it should matter what is in that config field.

Does webmin run the man -k as a root or another user?

[Jamie Cameron]

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The man -k command is run as root..
You should try running it in the Command Shell module, to
see if the same output is produced.