On 5/1/2000 Brian J. Stults wrote:
It turns out mandb is failing. When I run mandb as root I get this:
Processing manual pages under /usr/man...
Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait...mandb: can't create a
temporary filename: Permission denied
I don't know enough about how mandb works (even after reading the
manpage and documentation) to know why this is happening. Any ideas?
check permissions on /tmp mandb is suid man so it does not have root
privileges, however one annoying thing i have found is it creates a
temp file but for some reason it gets owned by root so when it goes
to delete it it gets a operation not permitted (because /tmp has the
sticky bit) it seems to work better if you use sudo -u man mandb
instead <shrug>
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Ethan Benson
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