On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:49:41PM EDT, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 03:49:23PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > On (15/08/06 09:29), Kent West wrote:
> > > Hmm; on my box:
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> man 2 chown
> > > No manual entry for chown in section 2
> > > See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
> >
> > Hi Kent
> >
> > $ man chown
> >
> > works here; it seems to be in 1
>
> chown(1) is the command-line program. chown(2) is the underlying system
> call used by chown(1) to do its dirty work, which is relevant here
> because chown(2)'s man page explicitly mentions that it only works for
> priviliged users, but chown(1)'s doesn't.
>
> Now if I could just figure out why the command-line program is in
> section 1 ("Executable programs or shell commands") rather than section
> 8 ("System administration commands (usually only for root)")...
>
I hadn't thought of that.. hehe..
Maybe because the complete manual is not the man page but the info
thing?
Thanks
cga
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