Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 15:34:40 -0400 (EDT) From: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> To: beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA (BEAUPRE Antoine) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc@carnaval.risq.qc.ca Subject: Re: Problems YOU can have? Message-ID: <199805091934.PAA09879@castor.loco.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980508160958.26773B-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca> from BEAUPRE Antoine at "May 8, 98 04:17:30 pm"
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BEAUPRE Antoine wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Maybe I posted this before, but I 'm not sure. Please forgive me.
> I got a big problem, and I don't even know what caused it to happen.
>
> When I use man it replies:
> man : can't find file /etc/manpath.coonf
>
> The files is there as it always was, and I haven't touch it or modified it
> in any way(to my knowledge)
>
> When I try to use cu -l /dev/cuaa2 -115200, I get:
> cu: /etc/uucp/port fopen: operation not permitted.
>
> Minicom replies:
> You don't exist. Go away.
>
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt replies:
> (i don't remember, it should have already been sent to this mailing list
> by now, but I haven't received it so I post it again...)
>
> Please consider this. I'm absolutly disfunctional without the manpages and
> cu to get my mail...
Both sound like permissions problems. /etc/manpath.conf should
have permissions rw-r--r-- (644). the man program runs suid to user
man, but manpath.conf should be owned by root.bin. I think that man
will not be able to open manpath.conf if it lacks world-read, even
if man is run by root.
I am cluess about the cu problem, though.
Have you been tightening up permissions lately? Maybe things are
too tight. Perhaps ownerships have changed due to a partial
installation or an error during a tar operation?
Dave
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