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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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Subject: Re: Documentation of security features
In-Reply-To: <19990919173136.B9A061CA7@overcee.netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Sep 20, 1999 01:31:36 am"
To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm)
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:26:09 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass),
	nbm@mithrandr.moria.org (Neil Blakey-Milner),
	dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon),
	freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, nik@FreeBSD.ORG (Nik Clayton)
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> Brett Glass wrote:
> > At 05:15 PM 9/19/99 +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> > 
> > >I don't know what your problem is, but:
> > >
> > >(nbm@mithrandr) /usr/share/man/man1> /bin/ls -li bg.1.gz fg.1.gz csh.1.gz
> > >439544 -r--r--r--  16 root  wheel  23414 Sep  3 18:05 bg.1.gz
> > >439544 -r--r--r--  16 root  wheel  23414 Sep  3 18:05 csh.1.gz
> > >439544 -r--r--r--  16 root  wheel  23414 Sep  3 18:05 fg.1.gz
> > 
> > Looks as if your system is freshly installed and very recent. Here are
> > the results from that 2.2.8 system:
> > 
> > giant: {25} ls -li bg.1.gz fg.1.gz csh.1.gz

A pwd right here would probably tell us just what this person has
``done wrong''.  I'll bet you they are looking in /usr/share/man/cat1,
not /usr/share/man/man1.

> > ls: bg.1.gz: No such file or directory
> > 102728 -rw-r--r--  1 man  bin  24620 Aug 30  1998 csh.1.gz
> > 102909 -rw-r--r--  1 man  bin  24620 Sep 17 11:00 fg.1.gz
> > 
> > --Brett
> 
> Well, I have a similar vintage machine.  I don't know what you've done
> to mess yours up.

Not messed up, user is lost in the wrong place...

> FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE #79: Thu Dec 24 16:42:10 WST 1998
> 
> [1:26am]/usr/share/man/man1-101>  /bin/ls -li bg.1.gz fg.1.gz csh.1.gz
> 39513 -r--r--r--  16 bin  bin  23334 Aug 21  1998 bg.1.gz
> 39513 -r--r--r--  16 bin  bin  23334 Aug 21  1998 csh.1.gz
> 39513 -r--r--r--  16 bin  bin  23334 Aug 21  1998 fg.1.gz
> 

-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25)                    rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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