On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 04:59:11AM -0400, Steve Coile wrote: > I've just installed a new software package that includes manual pages. > When I try to read the pages with "man -M <path> <page>", I'm told the > manual page doesn't exist. When I use "truss man -M <path> <page>", > truss generates *NO* output. Is that normal?
man(1) is a SUID executable:
% ls -la /usr/bin/man
-r-sr-xr-x 1 man wheel 29752 May 23 21:59 /usr/bin/man*
Hence truss(1) and other process tracing software like gdb(1) will
refuse to show you it's inner workings on the grounds of system
security.
Cheers,
Matthew
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