Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 23:36:27 -0600 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> Subject: Re: Preformatted man pages and 2.1.0-950928-SNAP Message-ID: <199510060536.XAA27920@clem.systemsix.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Oct 1995 19:50:30 EDT." <Pine.BSI.3.91.951004194438.24614K-100000@trepan.io.org>
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Hi, > Is anyone else having problems with pre-formatted man pages with > the September snapshot? man(1) appears to ignore the presence of > preformatted man pages. I've created all the cat* directories in > /usr/share/man and /usr/local/man, man(1) will save the preformatted > pages in there, but subsequent invocations still produce the > "Formatting page, please wait" message. Running catman doesn't help > either. All the directories are world-readable and owned by user man, > group man. Any ideas? With 950922 I saw the same problem, but slighly different specifics: my problem was that /usr/bin/man was a SUID program, owned by user man while all the xxx/catn directories were owned by user bin. Running man as root worked, ie it formatted and found the formated files next invocation, but man failed for joe user. I 'chown bin /usr/bin/man' and it started to work. I can't get xman to work properly for joe user. if run by root xman asks if you want to save the formatted file, and does the good thing.... but if joe user runs xman it never asks joe about saving the formatted version. Anyone have a fix for this problem?? -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | FreeBSD
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