In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 08:40:17PM +0000, Rich Walker wrote: > > > This is probably a question with an obvious answer, but I couldn't find > > the answer. > > > Why are man pages installed with owner and group "root" rather than > > owner and group "man"? > > Why would "man" need write access to the man pages?
Tradionally, formatted manual pages are cached, I believe, and the man group owns the cached files. root should own the nroff files and man the cache (ascii) files. cheers stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
