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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh From: jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1R: man program Date: 17 May 1994 12:13:36 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Lines: 13 Message-ID: <JKH.94May17131336@nx.ilo.dec.com> References: <94136.144510VCAPUANO@ESOC.BITNET> NNTP-Posting-Host: nx.ilo.dec.com In-reply-to: Vincenzo Capuano's message of Mon, 16 May 1994 14:45:10 EST In article <94136.144510VCAPUANO@ESOC.BITNET> Vincenzo Capuano <VCAPUANO@ESOC.BITNET> writes: If I run, i.e. say, "man ls" it creates in "/usr/share/man/cat1" the file "ls.1" so I guess that the next time I call "man ls" I do not have to wait for it and I should not see the message "Reformatting page...". That is correct. The only way you wouldn't see it is if the new `cat page' wasn't readable to anyone else. Is /usr/bin/man suid man, with the man and cat dirs also owned and writable by man? Are the cat dirs r/x for all? Jordan