Ethan Benson 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>
That worked. Thanks so much! I have really been missing "man -k". -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
