On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 12:02 +0300, Egypt.com wrote:

After update from CentOS 3.4 to 3.5 on 3 different boxes, I got the following message from each server

============================================ Subject: Cron root@premiere run-parts /etc/cron.daily

...

/etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron:

zcat: stdout: Broken pipe

zcat: stdout: Broken pipe

zcat: stdout: Broken pipe

zcat: stdout: Broken pipe ....

########Truncated due to size#######################

What does "zcat: stdout: Broken pipe" mean? Should i take any action?

This is an upstream issue:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64836

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=146849

It is supposedly harmless (Other than filling up your error logs with noise)