On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 06:06:50PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> Hi Fabrizio,
>
> Man is broken under the hurd.
Hurd port of man-db is late of several versions.
Please port version 2.3.14 which went in unstable recently.
fab
> When one tries to view man pages as root, man
> executes su with the -c option. This flag is not supported under the hurd's
> su. This patch will fix it to work on the hurd:
>
> --- /bin/man Thu Feb 10 10:50:30 2000
> +++ man Sun Mar 12 18:57:28 2000
> @@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
> pgm=`basename $0`
> edir=/usr/lib/man-db
> cmd="${edir}/${pgm} ${1+$@}"
> -test -w /root && exec su nobody -c ${1+"$cmd"}
> +test -w /root && exec sush nobody ${cmd} $1
> exec ${cmd}
>
> Thanks,
> -Neal
>
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