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Date:      Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:12:20 -0300 (ART)
From:      Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To:        Steve Coile <scoile@nandomedia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "truss man" doesn't show *anything*
Message-ID:  <20030616141050.G38983-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306160456450.18836-100000@localhost.localdomain>

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On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Steve Coile wrote:

> I've just installed a new software package that includes manual pages.
> When I try to read the pages with "man -M <path> <page>", I'm told the
> manual page doesn't exist.  When I use "truss man -M <path> <page>",
> truss generates *NO* output.  Is that normal?

Yes. It is normal. man is SUID and you can't trace (via ktrace, truss
or a debugger) a SUID executable, unless you're root.


			Fer



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