On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:14:03AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > It shouldn't. Could you show me the permissions on /var/cache/man/cat8 > > (using 'ls -ld')? > > drwxr-sr-x 15 man root 4096 Sep 28 07:48 /var/cache/man/ > > drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 28 08:28 /var/cache/man/cat1/ > drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 21:20 /var/cache/man/cat2/ > drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 21:20 /var/cache/man/cat3/ > drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 21:20 /var/cache/man/cat4/ > drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 27 23:30 /var/cache/man/cat5/ > drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 27 23:30 /var/cache/man/cat6/ > drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 27 23:30 /var/cache/man/cat7/ > drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 27 23:30 /var/cache/man/cat8/
They shouldn't be owned by user root, but by user man: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l /var/cache/man total 900 drwxr-sr-x 7 man root 4096 Sep 28 06:32 X11R6 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Sep 28 01:11 cat1 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Sep 27 06:31 cat2 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Sep 28 01:13 cat3 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Jul 9 06:28 cat4 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Sep 28 01:13 cat5 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Sep 23 20:38 cat6 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Sep 26 06:31 cat7 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Sep 28 01:13 cat8 drwxr-sr-x 7 man root 4096 Aug 26 06:47 fsstnd -rw-r--r-- 1 man root 864256 Sep 28 06:32 index.bt drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Jul 1 04:45 local drwxr-sr-x 3 man root 4096 Sep 28 06:32 oldlocal drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 Jul 1 04:45 opt > > You might like to file a bug report against the man-db package, where we > > can sort this out in more detail. > > Is it man-db or is it me? I've been following this list for some time > now, and I can't remember anyone complaining about this... I'm not sure what caused the permissions to be that way originally (can't have been any vaguely recent version of man-db, as none of them run with root privileges ...). man-db can certainly work around it, though; if nothing else I can 'chown -R' that directory in the postinst. > > Also, what version of man-db are you using? > > man-db 2.3.20-2 > > I've been playing around a little more with this and found out that > the cached .gz files are only created for user root, an not for other > users. That'll be the same cause. Thanks - I'll file a bug and see if I can squeeze in a fix before the base system freezes. 'chown -R man /var/cache/man' will fix your problem for now. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
