From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 2 11:13:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B19214CE8 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 11:13:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 27819 invoked from network); 2 Nov 1999 19:13:12 -0000 Received: from userbl17.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.144.124) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 2 Nov 1999 19:13:12 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id TAA24870 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 19:12:43 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 19:12:42 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Correct owner/perms for man directories? Message-ID: <19991102191242.C317@marder-1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Because I kept getting errors about files in the cat[1-9] directories not being in gzip(1) format I rm(1)'d all the cat* directories in all the man directories and then ran, as root: # catman `manpath` This gave the warning (but continued running): Don't start this program as root, use: echo /usr/bin/catman | nice -5 su -m man Killing the original task and restarting as per the message resulted in "Permission denied" errors when trying to create all the cat directories. The owner/perms of all the man directories are: drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512 Nov 2 19:10 man so the user ``man'' can't write to them. What are the correct owner/perms for the man directories? -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message