-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 4780 May 15 06:49 /usr/bin/mandb This is not working. It is not letting mandb creating the 'index cache'. ??? If I have selected permissions.paranoid, how do I change this? Thanks, CC --- Chuck Carson Sr. Systems Engineer San Diego, California O: +1 (858) 646-2095 F: +1 (858) 297-8570 -----Original Message----- From: Anders Johansson [mailto:andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 6:12 PM To: Chuck; suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] MAN system is tarfued SuSE 7.2 I'm assuming you have selected permissions.paranoid. This breaks many things. If you do chmod u+s /usr/bin/mandb it will work. Anders On Friday 10 August 2001 02:55, Chuck wrote:
What must be done to get this working correctly? I changed the perms in /usr/bin/man to 755. This did not change anything. I added several man pages to /usr/local/man, which is in $MANPATH, but man does not see them unless I 'cd /usr/local/man;man ./mymanpage'.
I have applied all updates from SuSE. Once again this is SuSE 7.2. I also get these same errors when I run SuSEconfig.
Any ideas???
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--- Chuck Carson Sr. Systems Engineer San Diego, California O: +1 (858) 646-2095 F: +1 (858) 297-8570
-----Original Message----- From: Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka [mailto:kastus@tsoft.com] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 4:29 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] MAN system is tarfued SuSE 7.2
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:40:41PM -0700, 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)
Are you running mandb as root?
Did you try to use --debug option of mandb?
Did you look at /etc/cron.daily/aaa_base_do_mandb script?
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.
You might also want to look at this page: http://www.suse.com/de/support/security/2001_019_man_txt.txt
-Kastus
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--- Chuck Carson Sr. Systems Engineer San Diego, California O: +1 (858) 646-2095 F: +1 (858) 297-8570
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