From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jan 9 2:26:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 389C537B417 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 02:26:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g09APXH50755; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:25:33 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:25:33 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Andre Albsmeier Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/33575: [PATCH] allow using of -C option during install of man pages Message-ID: <20020109122533.C41379@sunbay.com> References: <200201091014.g09AE2E33220@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020109111529.A67276@curry.mchp.siemens.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020109111529.A67276@curry.mchp.siemens.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:15:29AM +0100, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > On Wed, 09-Jan-2002 at 02:14:02 -0800, ru@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > Synopsis: [PATCH] allow using of -C option during install of man pages > > > > State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended > > State-Changed-By: ru > > State-Changed-When: Wed Jan 9 02:11:34 PST 2002 > > State-Changed-Why: > > The catpaging feature of man(1) is going to be axed in the > > next couple of days. > > Oops, why this? Did I miss something? > This feature of man(1) is insecure in many ways, catpages are optional, and there are good alternatives exist for creating catpages in a secure way during the `make world' (MANBUILDCAT) and on a periodic(8) basis (weekly_catman_enable). Please see PR bin/32791 for details. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message