On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 07:30:57AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 02:42:33AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
> > my 'man' apparently runs with root privileges:
> >
> > $ ll /usr/lib/man-db
> > total 220
> > drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Sep 26 00:55 ./
> > drwxr-xr-x
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 02:42:33AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > (can't have been any vaguely recent version of man-db, as none of them
> > run with root privileges ...). man-db can certainly work around it,
>
> my 'man' apparently runs with root privileges:
>
> $ ll /usr
Colin Watson wrote:
> (can't have been any vaguely recent version of man-db, as none of them
> run with root privileges ...). man-db can certainly work around it,
my 'man' apparently runs with root privileges:
$ ll /usr/lib/man-db
total 220
drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 Sep 26 00:5
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:14:03AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > It shouldn't. Could you show me the permissions on /var/cache/man/cat8
> > (using 'ls -ld')?
>
> drwxr-sr-x 15 manroot 4096 Sep 28 07:48 /var/cache/man/
>
> drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 28 08:2
It shouldn't. Could you show me the permissions on /var/cache/man/cat8
(using 'ls -ld')?
drwxr-sr-x 15 manroot 4096 Sep 28 07:48 /var/cache/man/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 28 08:28 /var/cache/man/cat1/
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 21:20 /var/cache/man/cat2/
drwxr
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:04:19AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
> On my machine root keeps getting email from cron saying "rm: cannot
> unlink `/var/cache/man/cat8/(whatever).gz': Permission denied".
>
> I've traced this behaviour to the man-db cron job trying to remove
> stale files from the /var
On my machine root keeps getting email from cron saying "rm: cannot
unlink `/var/cache/man/cat8/(whatever).gz': Permission denied".
I've traced this behaviour to the man-db cron job trying to remove
stale files from the /var/cache/man tree while running as user 'man',
because running the comma
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