From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 30 20:54: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C1D14F76 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 20:54:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id XAA02059 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 23:53:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903310453.XAA02059@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Manpath strageness To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 23:53:52 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What am I missing? [117:~] echo $MANPATH /usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/home/penn/man [118:~] apropos procmail procmail(1) - autonomous mail processor procmailex(5) - procmail rcfile examples procmailrc(5) - procmail rcfile procmailsc(5) - procmail weighted scoring techique [119:~] man -k procmail procmail(1) - autonomous mail processor procmailex(5) - procmail rcfile examples procmailrc(5) - procmail rcfile procmailsc(5) - procmail weighted scoring techique [120:~] man procmail No manual entry for procmail [121:~] ls -l /usr/local/man/cat1/pr* -rw-r--r-- 1 man wheel 674 Feb 16 22:02 /usr/local/man/cat1/printmail.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 man wheel 11488 Nov 22 14:25 /usr/local/man/cat1/procmail.1.gz [122:~] man printmail PRINTMAIL(1L) PRINTMAIL(1L) NAME printmail - format mail in a readable fashion for printing . . . [123:~] gunzip -c /usr/local/man/cat1/procmail.1.gz | groff -Tascii -man | more PROCMAIL(1) PROCMAIL(1) NAME procmail - autonomous mail processor . . . What the heck is going on here? It's got to be something obvious, right? The page is in the manpath. The page is listed in the whatis. The user has access to the directory and permission to read the file. The user can get the page for the item next to it with the same permissions in the same location... Info about two users who can't seem to be able to read the page, [132:~] id uid=502(penn) gid=502(penn) groups=502(penn), 501(cjc) [116:~] id uid=510(netrek) gid=510(netrek) groups=510(netrek), 501(cjc) And one who can, [112:~] id uid=501(cjc) gid=501(cjc) groups=501(cjc), 0(wheel), 5(operator) This one is a member of wheel, but the files are all 644 (and the diretories are all 755 from the root up to cat1). Clue? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message