Package: man Version: 2.3.10 Revision: 2 When I type "man <command>" as a user from a directory that has a man subdirectory that I don't have write permission on I get the following error message:
man: can't create index cache /usr/doc/./man/index.db: Permission denied The page is then displayed okay but I can't figure out why the system wants to create the index file. I am using a newly installed debian 0.93R6 with kernel 1.3.30. Below is a transcript of several such man command sequences followed by the environment and shell variables that were set, the status from dpkg for man and the manpath.config file. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Script started on Sun Nov 5 17:19:57 1995 oleta% cd ~ oleta% ls -ld . man ls: man: No such file or directory drwxrwxr-x 17 stuart stuart 2048 Nov 5 17:14 ./ oleta% man man > /dev/null oleta% cd /usr oleta% ls -ld . man drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 1024 Nov 1 23:58 ./ drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 1024 Nov 1 22:30 man/ oleta% man man > /dev/null man: can't create index cache /usr/./man/index.db: Permission denied Reformatting man(1), please wait... oleta% cd /usr/doc oleta% ls -ld . man drwxr-xr-x 81 root root 2048 Nov 5 17:03 ./ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 1 22:29 man/ oleta% man man > /dev/null man: can't create index cache /usr/doc/./man/index.db: Permission denied oleta% cd /etc oleta% ls -ld . man ls: man: No such file or directory drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 3072 Nov 4 12:34 ./ oleta% man man > /dev/null oleta% setenv TERM=xterm HOME=/home/stuart PATH=.:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games SHELL=/usr/bin/tcsh MAIL=/var/spool/mail/stuart LOGNAME=stuart HOSTTYPE=i486-linux VENDOR=unknown OSTYPE=linux MACHTYPE=i386 SHLVL=2 PWD=/etc USER=stuart GROUP=stuart HOST=oleta PAGER=less -e iraf=/iraf/iraf/ oleta% set addsuffix argv () cwd /etc dirstack /etc echo_style both edit filec gid 1000 group stuart history 100 home /home/stuart host oleta owd /usr/doc path (. /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/bin/X11 /usr/games) prompt %m% prompt2 %R? prompt3 CORRECT>%R (y|n|e|a)? savehist 100 shell /usr/bin/tcsh shlvl 2 status 0 tcsh 6.06.00 term xterm tty ttypa uid 1000 user stuart version tcsh 6.06.00 (Cornell) 1995-05-13 (i386-unknown-linux) options 8b,nls,dl oleta% dpkg --status man Package: man Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: doc Maintainer: Alvar Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 2.3.10 Revision: 2 Depends: groff Description: Display the on-line manual. This packages provides the man command, this utility is the primary way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). Other utilities provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching the manual page database; the manpath utility for determining the manual page search path and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman and zsoelim. This packages uses the groff suit of programs to format and display the manual pages. oleta% uname -a Linux oleta 1.3.30 #1 Sat Nov 4 11:56:16 PST 1995 i486 oleta% cat /etc/manpath.config # man_db.config # # This file is used by the man_db package to configure the man and cat paths. # It is also used to provide a manpath for those without one by examining # their PATH environment variable. For details see the manpath(5) man page. # # Lines beginning with `#' are comments and are ignored. Any combination of # tabs or spaces may be used as `whitespace' separators. # # There are three mappings allowed in this file: # -------------------------------------------------------- # MANDATORY_MANPATH manpath_element # MANPATH_MAP path_element manpath_element # MANDB_MAP global_manpath [relative_catpath] #--------------------------------------------------------- # every automatically generated MANPATH includes these fields # #MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/src/pvm3/man # MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/man MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/X11R5/man MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/X11R6/man MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/X11/man MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/X386/man MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/local/man #--------------------------------------------------------- # set up PATH to MANPATH mapping # ie. what man tree holds man pages for what binary directory. # # *PATH* -> *MANPATH* # MANPATH_MAP /bin /usr/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin /usr/man MANPATH_MAP /sbin /usr/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/sbin /usr/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/bin /usr/local/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin/X11 /usr/X386/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/X386/bin /usr/X386/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/X11/bin /usr/X386/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/X11R5/bin /usr/X11R5/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/X11R6/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/games /usr/man #--------------------------------------------------------- # For a manpath element to be considered `global' it must be mentioned # below. Each line may have an optional extra string indicating the catpath # associated with the manpath. The keyword 'FSSTND' indicates that the # default FSSTND catpath location should be used. If no catpath string is # used, the catpath will default to the given manpath. # # You *must* provide all `global' man paths, including alternate system # man paths and locale specific manpaths and combinations of both, if # they exist, otherwise `user' permissions will be used to manipulate the # manual pages. Also, utilities like mandb will not initialise the database # cache for any manpaths not mentioned below. # # Any manpaths that are `contained' within other manpaths must be mentioned # *before* the containing manpath. E.g. /usr/man/preformat must be listed # before /usr/man. # # *MANPATH* -> *CATPATH* # MANDB_MAP /usr/man /var/catman MANDB_MAP /usr/local/man /var/catman/local MANDB_MAP /usr/X386/man /var/catman/X386 MANDB_MAP /usr/X11R5/man /var/catman/X11R5 MANDB_MAP /usr/X11R6/man /var/catman/X11R6 MANDB_MAP /usr/X11/man /var/catman/X11 oleta% exit exit Script done on Sun Nov 5 17:35:15 1995
