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Date:      Mon, 19 May 2003 11:01:00 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: man(1) oddity - was: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages...
Message-ID:  <20030519105349.S93323-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20030516124723.GE2047@sunbay.com>

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On Fri, 16 May 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:09:02PM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
> >
> > As a normal user, the "Formatting page, please wait..." message never
> > appears, whereas it does for root.
> >
> > IMHO this is a mild POLA violation.
> >
> For a normal user, man(1) no longer creates the catpages.
> This is still being revised (by me).

It still has to format the page. A user should be told this regardless if
she is the superuser or not. ATM, only root gets a message.

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 :{ andyf@speednet.com.au

        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/





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