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/etc/cron.weekly

Name	Size	Mode	Actions
.placeholder	102	0644	edit dl rm
man-db	1020	0755	edit dl rm

Edit: /etc/cron.weekly/man-db (1020B)

#!/bin/sh
#
# man-db cron weekly

set -e

if [ -d /run/systemd/system ]; then
    # Skip in favour of systemd timer.
    exit 0
fi

# This should be set by cron, but apparently isn't always; see
# https://bugs.debian.org/209185.  Add fallbacks so that start-stop-daemon
# can be found.
export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"

iosched_idle=
# Don't try to change I/O priority in a vserver or OpenVZ.
if ! egrep -q '(envID|VxID):.*[1-9]' /proc/self/status && \
   ([ ! -d /proc/vz ] || [ -d /proc/bc ]); then
    iosched_idle='--iosched idle'
fi

if ! [ -d /var/cache/man ]; then
    # Recover from deletion, per FHS.
    install -d -o man -g man -m 0755 /var/cache/man
fi

# regenerate man database
if [ -x /usr/bin/mandb ]; then
    # --pidfile /dev/null so it always starts; mandb isn't really a daemon,
    # but we want to start it like one.
    start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /dev/null \
		      --startas /usr/bin/mandb --oknodo --chuid man \
		      $iosched_idle \
		      -- --quiet
fi

exit 0

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