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rokkon

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Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 18

cron weird behaviour

I´m having a quite weird issue here.
everytime cron runs the scripts in /etc/cron.daily/ my keyboard either doesn't accept any keystrokes or prints strange characters like if a key got stuck.
i tracked it down to the "whatis" script whick looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

# Make sure MANPATH is complete
source /etc/profile
source /etc/profile.d/* 2>/dev/null

# Update the "whatis" database
/usr/sbin/makewhatis -u -w

the command that obviously causes that behaviuor is "source /etc/profile"
everything is fine again if i switch to a virtual console and if i run the command in a virtual console my keyboard behaves normal.

any ideas?