Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:41:53 +0400 From: Andrej Zverev <andrej.zverev@gmail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: perl@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: periodic weekly catman - perl problem Message-ID: <CAD5bB%2BhvVkS%2BidCcddPS3t3pMjzhBX13P81ztXn_J_zg6egDDA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E520C64.1080603@FreeBSD.org> References: <201108201123.p7KBNYFO008124@172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net> <4E520C64.1080603@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > I have the catman option enabled for periodic/weekly and get the > following errors: > > Reformatting manual pages: > catman: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4/man/cat3: mkdir: Permission denied > catman: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4/perl/man/cat3: mkdir: Permission denied > > > It seems that the cat3 directories are not created because the man > directories are owned by root, and the cat* directories are owned by > man, which is what the 330.catman script operates as. > > Creating those directories with the proper permissions allows the catman > periodic script to do its thing. So my question is, is this something > that the catman periodic script should be doing, or should the perl port > be doing it? > > Hello, Doug. I couldn't find which way is correct in this situation but I can propose the following patch: http://sunner.semmy.ru/~az/perl-man.txt if this solve issue when you can knock-knock at skv's (perl maintainer) door.
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