Re: [techtalk] manpages cannot create index.bt

2001-05-01 Thread Jen Hamilton
Strace was a good idea, but didn't give any more information in this case. It only said "permission denied." and no EPERM errors. However, I made /var/qmail/man world readable, ran `man `, and index.bt was created. This let me see that index.bt is created by 'man', who is part of the users grou

Re: [techtalk] manpages cannot create index.bt

2001-05-01 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > man: can't create index cache /var/qmail/man/index.bt: Permission > denied > I've checked permissions on /var, /var/qmail, and /var/qmail/man, and > they all the same as another system where this error doesn't happen. I > can also touch a file in /var/qmail/man. Try ru

[techtalk] manpages cannot create index.bt

2001-05-01 Thread Jen Hamilton
Anyone seen this before? Man pages will still display, but I get this error: man: can't create index cache /var/qmail/man/index.bt: Permission denied I've checked permissions on /var, /var/qmail, and /var/qmail/man, and they all the same as another system where this error doesn't happen. I can a