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- From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
- Subject: Re: apropos broken cause not readable!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.232052.5244@tc.cornell.edu>
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- References: <NEAL.93Jan25170809@neal.ctd.comsat.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:20:52 GMT
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- In article <NEAL.93Jan25170809@neal.ctd.comsat.com> neal@ctd.comsat.com (Neal Becker) writes:
- >As shipped, apropos only works for root. After saying chmod +r, it
- >works for anyone. I'm sure I don't know why it need reads (in
- >addition to execute) permission. Does anyone know?
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- Because it's a shell script, not just a binary.
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- mdw
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