Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 00:30:08 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Manpath strageness Message-ID: <19990401003008.B94041@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19990331202722.7501.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> References: <199903311514.KAA04065@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <19990331202722.7501.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
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Greg Black wrote: > If that doesn't make things clear, I'd run it under ktrace and see > what it's doing. Unlikely to work. man(1) is setuid, and ktrace doesn't work for setuid programs[0]. It would trace OK for root, but Crist is having the problem with non-root users. You could turn off the setuid bit, but then the situation would have changed. -- [0] very annoying, though I suppose necessary for security really -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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