Re: Help me interpret error messages
In article <slrn63dcl9.1k8.scamper@ruby.trisk.com> gerdoisa-no-spam wrote:
: Also make sure the following directories are set to have a group of "man"
: see: chgrp
:
: root>vdir /var/catman -d
: drwxrwxr-x 14 root man 1024 Mar 21 1997 /var/catman
:
: root>vdir /var/catman
: total 12
: drwxrwxr-x 12 root man 1024 Mar 21 1997 X11
: drwxrwxr-x 2 root man 1024 Oct 4 13:49 cat1
: drwxrwxr-x 2 root man 1024 Sep 14 11:20 cat2
: drwxrwxr-x 2 root man 1024 Oct 4 13:37 cat3
: drwxrwxr-x 2 root man 1024 Jun 11 02:39 cat4
: drwxrwxr-x 2 root man 1024 Oct 1 08:44 cat5
: drwxrwxr-x 2 root man 1024 Oct 3 14:41 cat6
: drwxrwxr-x 2 root man 1024 Dec 20 1996 cat7
: drwxrwxr-x 2 root man 1024 Oct 4 13:26 cat8
: drwxrwxr-x 2 root man 1024 Aug 8 1995 cat9
: drwxrwxr-x 2 root man 1024 Sep 14 11:21 catn
: drwxrwxr-x 12 root man 1024 Mar 21 1997 local
:
: This is so the man program can set it's group id to "man" when it
: is run, and thus have write permissions to those directories for when you
: are reading the manual pages.
:
: root>vdir /usr/bin/man
: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root man 28920 Sep 22 19:05 /usr/bin/man
Hmm. Are you sure about that? Chez moi it's like this:
descartes:~> vdir /var/catman/ -d
drwxr-xr-x 13 man root 1024 Sep 28 07:01 /var/catman/
descartes:~> vdir /var/catman/
total 260
drwxr-xr-x 6 man root 1024 Sep 28 07:12 X11R6
drwxr-xr-x 2 man root 1024 Sep 29 06:45 cat1
drwxr-xr-x 2 man root 1024 Aug 24 18:18 cat2
drwxr-xr-x 2 man root 1024 Aug 24 18:18 cat3
drwxr-xr-x 2 man root 1024 Aug 24 18:18 cat4
drwxr-xr-x 2 man root 1024 Sep 2 06:46 cat5
drwxr-xr-x 2 man root 1024 Aug 24 18:18 cat6
drwxr-xr-x 2 man root 1024 Aug 24 18:18 cat7
drwxr-xr-x 2 man root 1024 Sep 30 23:00 cat8
drwxr-xr-x 5 man root 1024 Sep 28 06:48 de_DE
-rw-r--r-- 1 man root 253952 Sep 28 07:01 index.bt
drwxr-xr-x 5 man root 1024 Sep 28 06:48 it_IT
descartes:~> vdir /usr/bin/man
-rwsr-xr-x 1 man root 71204 May 21 11:40 /usr/bin/man
I'm running Debian 1.3.1.
Ho-hum,
MartinS
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