Hello.

How come I keep getting these e-mail with cron errors daily? I have been get
ting them for over a month and daily
(Sundays -- I get two e-mails):

From root@localhost.localdomain Sat Jun 17 06:26:17 2006
Return-path: root@localhost.localdomain
Envelope-to: root@localhost.localdomain
Delivery-date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 06:26:17 -0700
Received: from root by localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 4.62)
(envelope-from <root@localhost.localdomain> )
id 1FraoZ-0000IV-Vb
for root@localhost.localdomain; Sat, 17 Jun 2006 06:26:17 -0700
From: Cron Daemon <root@localhost.localdomain>
To: root@localhost.localdomain
Subject: Cron <root@FooBar> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
/etc/cron.daily
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/b
in>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>
Message-Id: <E1FraoZ-0000IV-Vb@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 06:26:17 -0700

/etc/cron.daily/man-db:
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3x/Xau.3x: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/XauGetBestAuthByAddr.3x.gz: bad symlink 
or ROFF `.so' request
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3x/Xau.3x: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/XauFileName.3x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `
.so' request
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3x/Xau.3x: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/XauGetAuthByAddr.3x.gz: bad symlink or R
OFF `.so' request
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3x/Xau.3x: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/XauDisposeAuth.3x.gz: bad symlink or ROF
F `.so' request
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3x/Xau.3x: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/XauLockAuth.3x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `
.so' request
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3x/Xau.3x: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/XauReadAuth.3x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `
.so' request
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3x/Xau.3x: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/XauWriteAuth.3x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF 
`.so' request
mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3x/Xau.3x: No such file or directory
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/XauUnlockAuth.3x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF
 `.so' request

I don't have a /usr/share/man/man3x/ directory. I viewed the man-db:

$ cat /etc/cron.daily/man-db
#!/bin/sh
#
# man-db cron daily

set -e

if ! [ -d /var/cache/man ]; then
# Recover from deletion, per FHS.
mkdir -p /var/cache/man
chown man:root /var/cache/man
chmod 2755 /var/cache/man
fi

# expunge old catman pages which have not been read in a week
if [ -d /var/cache/man ]; then
cd /
if ! dpkg-statoverride --list /var/cache/man >/dev/null 2>&1; then
chown -R man /var/cache/man || true         # just in case
fi
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /dev/null --startas /bin/sh \
--oknodo --chuid man -- -c \
"find /var/cache/man -type f -name '*.gz' -atime +6 -print0 | \
xargs -r0 rm -f"
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 \
-- --no-purge --quiet
fi

exit 0


How do I fix this? I am using Debian (Linux FooBar 2.6.14-2-k7 #1 Wed Dec 28
 19:14:46 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux) Thank you in advance. 
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