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(I've removed the attachment in case that might have been associated
with the reason why my original post never made it to the list. If
you need to see my cygcheck output, let me know and I can either send
that directly to you (zipped) or post it inline in another post.
Thanks.)
Note #2: I have additional information regarding this problem. Please
see the end of this (re-)post. Thanks.
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Don't know when things went wrong (i.e. at which version released at
what point in time), BUT, SOMETHING obviously went very wrong with
the 'man' package at some recent point in the past, because it USED
to work just fine (month or three ago??) whereas now it DOESN'T.
I only noticed it today when I tried to view the man page for gcc:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
$ man gcc
Warning: cannot open configuration file /usr/share/misc/man.conf
No manual entry for gcc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
$ cd /usr/share/misc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/misc
$ ls -al
total 10
dr-xr-x---+ 2 fish Users 0 Jul 31 21:18 .
drwx------+ 27 Administ ???????? 0 Jul 31 20:49 ..
- ---------- 1 fish Users 4777 Jul 31 20:49 man.conf
- -r-xr-x---+ 1 fish Users 4777 Mar 22 13:04
man.conf.default
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/misc
$ chmod 755 man.conf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/misc
$ ls -al
total 10
dr-xr-x---+ 2 fish Users 0 Jul 31 21:18 .
drwx------+ 27 Administ ???????? 0 Jul 31 20:49 ..
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 fish Users 4777 Jul 31 20:49 man.conf
- -r-xr-x---+ 1 fish Users 4777 Mar 22 13:04
man.conf.default
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/misc
$ man gcc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/misc
$ cygcheck -s > cygcheck.txt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/share/misc
$
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As you can see, the man.conf file gets created with absolutely no
permissions whatsoever. This can be confirmed via Windows File
Properties dialog.
I tried re-installing as well as un-installing & re-installing the
current 1.5k-3 as well as the previous 1.5k-2 versions of the package
from several different mirrors with the same results: the man.conf
file gets created with absolutely no permissions whatsoever.
Luckily I'm am administrator (and already had ownership of the file
too) and so changed the permissions and voilą! Now man works just
fine.
Does anyone have any idea what might be going on and/or what I can
look at to try and figure out what the heck is going on??
Thanks.
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Additional info:
Doing some more digging/poking around, it looks like my 'cp' (copy)
utility might be broken or something. <shrug>
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$ cygcheck -l man
/etc/postinstall/man.sh
/usr/bin/apropos
/usr/bin/man.exe
/usr/bin/man2dvi
/usr/bin/man2html.exe
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
$ cat /etc/postinstall/man.sh
cat: /etc/postinstall/man.sh: No such file or directory
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$ ls -al /etc/postinstall
total 326
drwx------+ 2 Administ ???????? 12288 Jul 31 21:18 .
drwx------+ 8 Administ ???????? 0 Jul 31 19:42 ..
- -rwx------+ 1 Administ mkpasswd 160 Dec 5 2002
autoconf-devel.sh.done
- -rwx------+ 1 Administ Users 144 Mar 9 2003
automake-devel.sh.done
- ----------+ 1 fish Users 849 Apr 5 2003
base-files-mketc.sh.done
- ----------+ 1 fish Users 266 Aug 12 2003
base-files-profile.sh.done
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$ cat /etc/postinstall/man.sh.done
#!/bin/sh
prefix=/usr
bindir=${prefix}/bin
datadir=${prefix}/share
mandir=${datadir}/man
if [ ! -e ${datadir}/misc/man.conf ] ; then
cp ${datadir}/misc/man.conf.default ${datadir}/misc/man.conf
fi
cd ${bindir}
ln -sf man.exe manpath.exe
cd ${mandir}/man1
ln -sf man.1 manpath.1
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Looking at the 'man.sh.done' script above (I'm assuming it simply
gets renamed once it's been run), a simple copy ('cp') command is
issued to create 'man.conf' from 'man.conf.default'
Yet, interestingly, whenever I manually enter the copy command for
myself, the permissions, as before are all screwed up (i.e.
non-existent, confirmed manualy via Windows right-click Properties):
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$ ls -al /usr/share/misc
total 5
d---------+ 2 fish Users 0 Aug 3 09:29 .
drwx------+ 27 Administ ???????? 0 Jul 31 20:49 ..
- ----------+ 1 fish Users 4777 Mar 22 13:04
man.conf.default
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
$ cp /usr/share/misc/man.conf.default /usr/share/misc/man.conf
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
$ ls -al /usr/share/misc
total 10
d---------+ 2 fish Users 0 Aug 4 00:28 .
drwx------+ 27 Administ ???????? 0 Jul 31 20:49 ..
- ---------- 1 fish mkpasswd 4777 Aug 4 00:28 man.conf
- ----------+ 1 fish Users 4777 Mar 22 13:04
man.conf.default
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
$
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Here's my cygcheck info on 'cp':
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$ cygcheck -l cp
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$ which cp
/usr/bin/cp
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$ cygcheck -c man
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
man 1.5k-3 OK
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$ cygcheck -c cp
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
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$ cygcheck -l cp
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$ cygcheck cp
Found: D:\Cygwin\bin\cp.exe
D:/Cygwin/bin/cp.exe
G:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.dll
G:\WINNT\system32\NTDLL.DLL
D:\Cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
G:\WINNT\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
G:\WINNT\system32\RPCRT4.DLL
D:\Cygwin\bin\cygintl-2.dll
D:\Cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
$ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/cp
fileutils-4.1-2
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I haven't tried reinstalling (or uninstalling/reinstalling) the
fileutils package yet, but I will, just to see if that makes any
difference at all.
In the mean time if there's anything else anyone can suggest for me
to do / look at, please let me know! This issue, while minor, is
driving me nuts! :) (i.e. it's annoying as all get out)
Thanks. :)
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