Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 18:29:10 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Correct owner/perms for man directories? Message-ID: <19991103182910.A911@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <18570.941617434@axl.noc.iafrica.com> References: <19991102191242.C317@marder-1> <18570.941617434@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 10:23:54AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Tue, 02 Nov 1999 19:12:42 GMT, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > What are the correct owner/perms for the man directories? > > Open up /etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist with your favourite pager and search for > the man directory. The following command will work, more or less. ;-) > > /^ man > > Note that it's 8 spaces and not a tab. > Thanks for the pointer. > Now you know how to find out for yourself in future. The short answer, > which you'll see for yourself, is that the cat directories are owned by > man:wheel and all the other directories by root:wheel. They're all mode > 0755. > Ah, so that's the problem. I rm'd the cat directories as well as the contents and, because the parent is root/wheel 0755, the user 'man' couldn't re-create them. Thanks. > Ciao, > Sheldon. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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