Hi Alvar,
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I checked the /usr/bin/man
permissions and they are correct. I ran strace as myself and
as root and the gzipped uuencoded results are concatenated below.
I am currently running a completely fresh debian system. I
reinstalled from scratch because I re
Hi Stuart,
Hmmm I dont know what why you are seing this problem. I have just
installed a pristine system here for a co-worker and I dont see the
same problem with his machine - the index.db file is created OK (in
the correct /var/catman dir). I dont have my sources here at work so I
will have to
Package: man
Version: 2.3.10
Revision: 2
When I type "man " as a user from a directory that has
a man subdirectory that I don't have write permission on I get
the following error message:
man: can't create index cache /usr/doc/./man/index.db: Permission denied
The page is then displayed okay bu
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