From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 9 15:00:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05691 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 15:00:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from castor.loco.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05621 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 15:00:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by castor.loco.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09879; Sat, 9 May 1998 15:34:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199805091934.PAA09879@castor.loco.net> Subject: Re: Problems YOU can have? In-Reply-To: from BEAUPRE Antoine at "May 8, 98 04:17:30 pm" To: beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA (BEAUPRE Antoine) Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 15:34:40 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc@carnaval.risq.qc.ca Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- <----. mail-to: djv@bedford.net <----|=================================== <----' Zber Qnrzbaf, Srjre Qrivyf! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message