On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 05:23:25PM +0200, xiscu wrote: > On 08/31/2012 12:32 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > >On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 07:59:19PM +0200, xiscu wrote: > >>/usr/bin/mandb: can't search directory /usr/local/share/man: Permission > >>denied > >What does 'ls -ld /usr/local/share/man' say; > drwx--S--- 3 root staff 4096 Aug 25 12:41 /usr/local/share/man > > > and have you intentionally > >changed the permissions of that directory? > > Not intentionally
Then to be honest I think the correct solution to this bug is to make that directory world-readable/executable. It doesn't seem to make sense for /usr/local/share/man to be readable only by root. Perhaps it was set that way by some deranged install script. chmod 2755 /usr/local/share/man Does that fix your problem? Depending on how far the insanity goes, you may need to similarly chmod some subdirectories. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
