From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 31 22:45:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1EF151AB for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:45:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.12 #4) id 10SUQy-000OVZ-00; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 00:30:08 +0100 (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 00:30:08 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Greg Black Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Manpath strageness Message-ID: <19990401003008.B94041@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <199903311514.KAA04065@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <19990331202722.7501.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990331202722.7501.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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