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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: man can't work!
Date: 24 Jul 1995 12:34:33 +0200
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<u7824501@cc.nctu.edu.tw> wrote:
> The 'man' always complain can't find /etc/manpath.config. But
>I really have a file /etc/manpath.config. What's wrong ?
Is it readable by user `man'? The man command runs setuid `man'. The
file should be mode 0644.
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)