On Saturday 11 August 2001 00:52, Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka wrote:
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 01:25:15PM -0700, Chuck wrote:
Here is the listing: matrix:/var/cache/man/fsstnd ===>ls -al total 92 drwxr-xr-x 19 diag daemon 4096 Aug 10 11:38 . drwxr-xr-x 24 man root 4096 Aug 10 11:37 .. drwxr-xr-x 18 diag daemon 4096 Jul 10 07:50 allman drwxr-xr-x 2 diag daemon 4096 May 15 06:49 cat1 drwxr-xr-x 2 diag daemon 4096 May 15 06:49 cat2 drwxr-xr-x 2 diag daemon 4096 May 15 06:49 cat3 drwxr-xr-x 2 diag daemon 4096 May 15 06:49 cat4 drwxr-xr-x 2 diag daemon 4096 May 15 06:49 cat5 drwxr-xr-x 2 diag daemon 4096 May 15 06:49 cat6 drwxr-xr-x 2 diag daemon 4096 May 15 06:49 cat7 drwxr-xr-x 2 diag daemon 4096 May 15 06:49 cat8 drwxr-xr-x 2 diag daemon 4096 May 15 06:49 cat9 drwxr-xr-x 2 diag daemon 4096 May 15 06:49 catn drwxr-xr-x 12 diag daemon 4096 Jul 10 07:50 cs drwxr-xr-x 12 diag daemon 4096 Jul 10 07:50 de drwxr-xr-x 12 diag daemon 4096 Jul 10 07:50 es drwxr-xr-x 12 diag daemon 4096 Jul 10 07:50 fr -rw-r--r-- 1 diag daemon 12322 Jul 10 08:30 index.db drwxr-xr-x 12 diag daemon 4096 Jul 10 07:50 it drwxr-xr-x 12 diag daemon 4096 Jul 10 07:50 ja -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 10 00:15 whatis
Chuck, how did you install 7.2? Did you update some existent installation?
THe ownership of files is wrong, that's why mandb cannot write anything.
Everything under /var/cache/man should be owned by user man group root.
As root run :
chown -R man:root /var/cache/man
Then mandb should be able to write its files.
-Kastus
mandb is suid root, and root can write to anyone's files. I'd be very surprised if this has any effect. On my system, the files are owned by man.daemon Anders