From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 11 06:42:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA10497 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 May 1998 06:42:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA10481 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 06:42:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA) Received: from epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca (epsom.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.25]) by harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA06330; Sun, 10 May 1998 00:21:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from derby.jsp.umontreal.ca (derby.jsp.umontreal.ca [132.204.46.26]) by epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca via ESMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id AAA02875; Sun, 10 May 1998 00:21:03 -0400 Received: from localhost (beaupran@localhost) by derby.jsp.umontreal.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id AAA28053; Sun, 10 May 1998 00:21:02 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: derby.jsp.umontreal.ca: beaupran owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 00:21:02 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine To: CyberPeasant cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Problems YOU can have? In-Reply-To: <199805091934.PAA09879@castor.loco.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As for this problem, I must conlude that it was due the the pseudo-re-installation (if I can say it that way...). If I got one thing to say, DON'T RE-INSTALL WITH THE BOOT DISKETTE... I messed up enough things to re-install my whole system... But it's working all well now... Thanks anyway! On Sat, 9 May 1998, CyberPeasant wrote: > 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! > +-----------------------------------+ | Free the world from businessmen | | Free yourself from your money | +-----------------------------------+ Free the web. Spidey visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message