Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 18:29:10 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Correct owner/perms for man directories? Message-ID: <19991103182910.A911@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <18570.941617434@axl.noc.iafrica.com> References: <19991102191242.C317@marder-1> <18570.941617434@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 10:23:54AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 02 Nov 1999 19:12:42 GMT, Mark Ovens wrote:
>
> > What are the correct owner/perms for the man directories?
>
> Open up /etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist with your favourite pager and search for
> the man directory. The following command will work, more or less. ;-)
>
> /^ man
>
> Note that it's 8 spaces and not a tab.
>
Thanks for the pointer.
> Now you know how to find out for yourself in future. The short answer,
> which you'll see for yourself, is that the cat directories are owned by
> man:wheel and all the other directories by root:wheel. They're all mode
> 0755.
>
Ah, so that's the problem. I rm'd the cat directories as well as
the contents and, because the parent is root/wheel 0755, the user
'man' couldn't re-create them.
Thanks.
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
>
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