Re: man-db cron.daily job
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:14:03AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > It shouldn't. Could you show me the permissions on /var/cache/man/cat8
> > (using 'ls -ld')?
>
> drwxr-sr-x 15 man root 4096 Sep 28 07:48 /var/cache/man/
>
> drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 28 08:28 /var/cache/man/cat1/
> drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 21:20 /var/cache/man/cat2/
> drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 21:20 /var/cache/man/cat3/
> drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 21:20 /var/cache/man/cat4/
> drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 27 23:30 /var/cache/man/cat5/
> drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 27 23:30 /var/cache/man/cat6/
> drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 27 23:30 /var/cache/man/cat7/
> drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 27 23:30 /var/cache/man/cat8/
They shouldn't be owned by user root, but by user man:
[cjwatson@arborlon ~]$ ls -l /var/cache/man
total 900
drwxr-sr-x 7 man root 4096 Sep 28 06:32 X11R6
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Sep 28 01:11 cat1
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Sep 27 06:31 cat2
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Sep 28 01:13 cat3
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Jul 9 06:28 cat4
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Sep 28 01:13 cat5
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Sep 23 20:38 cat6
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Sep 26 06:31 cat7
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Sep 28 01:13 cat8
drwxr-sr-x 7 man root 4096 Aug 26 06:47 fsstnd
-rw-r--r-- 1 man root 864256 Sep 28 06:32 index.bt
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Jul 1 04:45 local
drwxr-sr-x 3 man root 4096 Sep 28 06:32 oldlocal
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Jul 1 04:45 opt
> > You might like to file a bug report against the man-db package, where we
> > can sort this out in more detail.
>
> Is it man-db or is it me? I've been following this list for some time
> now, and I can't remember anyone complaining about this...
I'm not sure what caused the permissions to be that way originally
(can't have been any vaguely recent version of man-db, as none of them
run with root privileges ...). man-db can certainly work around it,
though; if nothing else I can 'chown -R' that directory in the postinst.
> > Also, what version of man-db are you using?
>
> man-db 2.3.20-2
>
> I've been playing around a little more with this and found out that
> the cached .gz files are only created for user root, an not for other
> users.
That'll be the same cause.
Thanks - I'll file a bug and see if I can squeeze in a fix before the
base system freezes. 'chown -R man /var/cache/man' will fix your problem
for now.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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