Have you removed the setuid bit on mandb? regards Anders On Friday 10 August 2001 00:40, Chuck wrote:
I have been adding man pages to /usr/local/man and /usr/man but the man command is not recognizing them. I ran mandb, which reported no new man pages. In the olden days you simply copied your man page to the appropriate director in your MANPATH and viola, everything worked.
Mandb also reports the following errors: Processing manual pages under /usr/man... fopen: Permission denied mandb: can't create index cache /var/cache/man/fsstnd/21188: Permission denied mandb: warning: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/fsstnd/21188: Permission denied mandb: can't chmod /var/cache/man/fsstnd/index.db: Operation not permitted mandb: can't remove /var/cache/man/fsstnd/index.db: Permission denied Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man/de...
(There are several more similar to thes)
This problem existed out of the box for 7.2. Does anyone know the problem? Does anyone know why SuSE is tinkering with a perfectly working man system? I switched to SuSE from Red Hat because Red Hat started junknig up what already worked fine, I hope SuSE is not following down their path.
???
-CC
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