Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 06:27:22 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: ben@scientia.demon.co.uk (Ben Smithurst), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Manpath strageness Message-ID: <19990331202722.7501.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199903311514.KAA04065@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> of Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:14:51 EST References: <199903311514.KAA04065@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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> When I do the same for a user who _can_ see the page, I get, > > searching in /usr/local/man > trying section 1 with globbing > globbing /usr/local/man/man1/procmail.1* > to_name in convert_name () is: /usr/local/man/cat1/procmail.1.gz > will try to write /usr/local/man/cat1/procmail.1.gz if needed > status from is_newer() = 0 > > trying command: /usr/bin/zcat /usr/local/man/cat1/procmail.1.gz | more > > When I worte both outputs to files and diff'ed them, the differences > begin at the 'status from is_newer() = 0' line. They are identical to > that point. So what was the difference at that line? What were the couple of lines after that? > Any ideas? I'd look hard at that status and see what it means in the source. If that doesn't make things clear, I'd run it under ktrace and see what it's doing. -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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