On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:18:35AM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 04:54:14AM +0200, Guenter Millahn wrote: > > myhost# man ls > > man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied > > myhost# > > I assume the temp file it wants to create is the cat page, the page > preformated. Normally, it goes to /var/cache/man/cat<section>.
Those are indeed temporary files in some sense, but they aren't the ones man is trying to create here. It's decompressing a gzipped man page before formatting it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

