On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 07:54:40AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I type mandb without any parameters it rewrites the > /var/cache/man/index.db file so that regular users (not root) > cannot get whatis answers from 'man -k line': > > 278782 -rw-r----- 1 man root 518153 Jun 27 07:41 index.db > > > > I can fix it back up by typing 'mandb -c', but who would guess? > > 278779 -rw-r--r-- 1 man root 553488 Jun 27 07:39 index.db
I tried to reproduce this here, but can't. Assuming you have the sudo package installed, could you please run this command: sudo -u man strace -f -s 1024 -o man.trace mandb; gzip -9 man.trace ... and attach the resulting man.trace.gz file to this bug? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
