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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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Subject: Re: Documentation of security features
In-Reply-To: <93590.937767690@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> from Parag Patel at "Sep 19, 1999 12:01:30 pm"
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/usr/sbin/catman deals with links automagically and will infact
populate /usr/share/man/cat* with linked copies.

> 
> >A pwd right here would probably tell us just what this person has
> >``done wrong''.  I'll bet you they are looking in /usr/share/man/cat1,
> >not /usr/share/man/man1.
> >
> >> > ls: bg.1.gz: No such file or directory
> >> > 102728 -rw-r--r--  1 man  bin  24620 Aug 30  1998 csh.1.gz
> >> > 102909 -rw-r--r--  1 man  bin  24620 Sep 17 11:00 fg.1.gz
> 
> Hm - that's curious.  Here's what is in my cat1 directory:
> 
> $ pwd
> /usr/share/man/cat1
> $ ll csh* bg* fg.*
> -rw-r--r--  16 man  wheel  24712 Aug 14 03:49 bg.1.gz
> -rw-r--r--  16 man  wheel  24712 Aug 14 03:49 csh.1.gz
> -rw-r--r--  16 man  wheel  24712 Aug 14 03:49 fg.1.gz
> 
> The man1/ files are also linked here.
> 
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD pinhead.parag.codegen.com 3.2-STABLE FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE #11: Mon Aug 23 11:21:01 PDT 1999     root@pinhead.parag.codegen.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/PINHEAD  i386
> 
> I run "catman `manpath`" weekly using my own 900.my-catman script,
> whereas the standard 330.catman weekly periodic script runs
> /usr/libexec/catman.local directly.  I'd originally done this as I've
> added some additional directories to /etc/manpath.config (for pgsql and
> pilot and such) subdirs, but perhaps it's taking care of the linking.
> 
> 
> 	-- Parag Patel
> 


-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25)                    rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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