Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 19:12:42 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Correct owner/perms for man directories? Message-ID: <19991102191242.C317@marder-1>
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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 <dir list> | 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?
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