From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 31 12:50:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F2531511B for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 12:50:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 7502 invoked by uid 1001); 31 Mar 1999 20:27:22 -0000 Message-ID: <19990331202722.7501.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 06:27:22 +1000 From: Greg Black To: cjclark@home.com Cc: ben@scientia.demon.co.uk (Ben Smithurst), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Manpath strageness References: <199903311514.KAA04065@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-reply-to: <199903311514.KAA04065@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> of Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:14:51 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message