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- From: david@prism.demon.co.uk (David Metcalfe)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: man won't run as root
- Message-ID: <721867409snx@prism.demon.co.uk>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 15:43:29 GMT
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- I've had to rebuild by linux system recently because of a disk crash,
- and I can no longer get man to run if logged in as root. If I am
- logged in as an ordinary user the man page is displayed correctly.
- However, if I am logged in as root, man creates the man page bu then
- doesn't display it.
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- man itself is setuid bin and the manpage directories man? and cat?
- are owned by bin. Using man -d shows that man is executing the
- correct command, for instance
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- /bin/zcat /usr/man/cat1/man.1.Z | /usr/bin/less -sC
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- Any ideas why this command might work for an ordinary user, but not
- for root?
-
- David
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- David Metcalfe david@prism.demon.co.uk
- London, England dmetcalf@cix.compulink.co.uk
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