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Date:      Mon, 29 Jul 1996 21:44:37 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list)
Subject:   Re: /usr/tmp not writable in 2.1.5
Message-ID:  <199607291944.VAA03845@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199607290649.IAA18923@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> from Thomas Gellekum at "Jul 29, 96 08:49:22 am"

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As Thomas Gellekum wrote:

> > Nobody will hinder you doing this.  However, providing this as the
> > default would violate the policy as described in hier(7) (in that it
> > requires /usr to be writable).
> 
> What about /usr/share/man/cat??

It's not strictly required.  Storing formatted man pages will not
happen if it's not available.  You can always run `catman' on the NFS
server, so nobody would even try to write there.

Perhaps it should go to /var/man/?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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