On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:16:11AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>
> Unless you specifically don't ask for them, that's what you get - it's a
> result of the one-size-fits-all metapackage system designed to mostly
> work in most situations.
>
> Specifically *not* asking for them takes a bit of work
On 11/04/14 02:15, Mike McClain wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:14:39AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> On 10/04/14 01:44, Mike McClain wrote:
>>> The other day I noticed my computer clutteres up with many
>>> directories in /var/cache/man/ for languages I don&#x
On Thu 10 Apr 2014 at 09:15:33 -0700, Mike McClain wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:14:39AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> > On 10/04/14 01:44, Mike McClain wrote:
>
> > > Nothing in /etc/cron/* says anything about recreating them. I assume
> > > mandb did it but can't tell what initiated the
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 09:14:39AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> On 10/04/14 01:44, Mike McClain wrote:
> > The other day I noticed my computer clutteres up with many
> > directories in /var/cache/man/ for languages I don't speak so I
> > deleted them.
>
> That w
On 04/09/2014 08:50 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 10/04/14 10:07, Doug wrote:
/snip/
The only characters that anyone could reasonably need can be formed
by setting up a Compose key.
Do you have a source for that or is it just an opinion from the
viewpoint of a particular location?
The part
On 10/04/14 10:07, Doug wrote:
>
> On 04/09/2014 07:14 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> On 10/04/14 01:44, Mike McClain wrote:
>>> The other day I noticed my computer clutteres up with many
>>> directories in /var/cache/man/ for languages I don't speak so I
>
On 04/09/2014 07:14 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 10/04/14 01:44, Mike McClain wrote:
The other day I noticed my computer clutteres up with many
directories in /var/cache/man/ for languages I don't speak so I
deleted them.
That was a mistake. You're new to this "sysadmin" s
On 10/04/14 01:44, Mike McClain wrote:
> The other day I noticed my computer clutteres up with many
> directories in /var/cache/man/ for languages I don't speak so I
> deleted them.
That was a mistake. You're new to this "sysadmin" stuff right? ;)
> Today they&#
The other day I noticed my computer clutteres up with many directories
in /var/cache/man/ for languages I don't speak so I deleted them.
Today they're back but I can't tell how they got there. Nothing in
/etc/cron/* says anything about recreating them. I assume mandb did it
but
I think it's a problem with the way exim is configured.
Exim is mailing the report locally. So that's why we couldn't find
anything about cron-daily, man-db, or file permissions !
I can see the same error on two freshly installed Debian unstable
boxes, with completely different archs and settin
| Thanks for your suggestion, i'll report if it worked.
No, sorry, even with /var mounted 'suid' i got still the same error mail...
/etc/cron.daily/man-db:
find: /var/cache/man: Permission denied
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"David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| Hmm. nosuid on mounts may just not honor the set user id for
| executables. On the other hand, the manual page tells me that nosuid
| makes it ignore suid bits. (see man mount). So, semantically, those
| permissions are just rwxr-x-r-x, and even if yuur user is
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:16:08 +0200
Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> /etc/cron.daily/man-db:
> find: /var/cache/man: Permission denied
Cron likely runs with no (or low level) permissions.
> /var is mounted as:
> /dev/hda10 on /var type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,errors=remount-
(Please first cc to me, if i got a reply i will switch to reading the archive)
Hello,
This is Debian Sid, and since a few months i got this error
message (sent via local mail):
/etc/cron.daily/man-db:
find: /var/cache/man: Permission denied
and i just can't come up with any explan
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It is still empty. What version are you using? I am using testing. Can
>it be that you have somehow configured your system for that matter?
>If I got it correctly the caching thing is problematic since your whole
>/var might be filled up with this stuff, and s
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:58:51AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Doesn't /var/cache/man/cat? suppose to keep formated man pages?
> > On my machine it is empty:
> >
> > [03:56:42 tmp]$ ls /var/cache/man/cat?
> > /var/cache/man/cat1:
> >
>
>
> Subject: Noting in /var/cache/man/cat? ?
> Date: Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:58:51AM +0300
>
> In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Doesn't /var/cache/man/cat? suppose to keep formated man page
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I really don't know definitively so someone else may have a better
>answer but according to the man man-page -
>
>/var/cache/man/ is an alternate database cache.
>
>/usr/share/man/ is a traditional database cache.
>
>From the man-page -
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Doesn't /var/cache/man/cat? suppose to keep formated man pages?
>On my machine it is empty:
I imagine that you have a non-setuid man, then.
dpkg-reconfigure man-db
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Subject: Noting in /var/cache/man/cat? ?
Date: Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:58:51AM +0300
In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Doesn't /var/cache/man/cat? suppose to keep formated man pages?
> On my machine it is empty:
>
> [
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 03:58:51AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Doesn't /var/cache/man/cat? suppose to keep formated man pages?
> On my machine it is empty:
>
> [03:56:42 tmp]$ ls /var/cache/man/cat?
> /var/cache/man/cat1:
>
I really don't know definitivel
Doesn't /var/cache/man/cat? suppose to keep formated man pages?
On my machine it is empty:
[03:56:42 tmp]$ ls /var/cache/man/cat?
/var/cache/man/cat1:
/var/cache/man/cat2:
/var/cache/man/cat3:
/var/cache/man/cat4:
/var/cache/man/cat5:
/var/cache/man/cat6:
/var/cache/man/cat7:
/var/
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