> believing the problem was file permission related, I changed the
> group permissions to the /var/tmp/ directory to match the 'staff'
> group, however I still get the same message.
> I perhaps wrongly believe there is nothing I can do to set file
> permissions to the temp files generated by perldoc so am currently at
> a loss and revert back to using 'man perlwhatever | grep searchterm'
No, I think you're right.
I'm not sure what's causing the permissions to change, but issuing:
"sudo chmod 1777 /var/tmp" did the trick for me.
(permissions should read "drwxrwxrwt")
See here for reference to the same problem:
<http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00046.html>
HTH
-joshua
On Tuesday, July 17, 2001, at 04:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm having problems with perldoc, if I try to use it I get the
> following error:
>
> Can't open /var/tmp/tmp.0.000228: Permission denied at
> /usr/bin/perldoc line 331
>
[snip]
>
> Anyone else had this problem? Any tips?
>
>
> TIA
>
> Robin
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