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RE: Problems with man
- From: "Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR)" <Duane dot Kaufman at med dot ge dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 07:26:35 -0500
- Subject: RE: Problems with man
Hello,
>
> > Below is the output from getfacl:
> > # file: /usr/bin/tbl
> > # owner: Administrators
> > # group: mkgroup_l_d
> > user::---
> > group::---
> > mask:rwx
> > other:---
> >
> > # file: /bin/cat
> > # owner: Administrators
> > # group: mkgroup_l_d
> > user::---
> > group::---
> > mask:rwx
> > other:---
> >
> > # file: /usr/bin/nroff
> > # owner: Administrators
> > # group: mkgroup_l_d
> > user::---
> > group::---
> > mask:rwx
> > other:---
> >
> > # file: /usr/bin/less
> > # owner: Administrators
> > # group: mkgroup_l_d
> > user::---
> > group::---
> > mask:rwx
> > other:---
>
> Judging by the above, it is a permission problem. For some
> reason, your
> /usr/bin does not have the correct flags. bash, which uses a
> different
> mechanism for locating executables, doesn't notice this, but sh gets
> confused. Try "chmod 755 /usr/bin/*". Also, the group name indicates
> that your /etc/group file is not up to date (by showing the
> command you
> need to run, i.e., "mkgroup -l" and "mkgroup -d").
BINGO!
That fixed it!
Thanks guys, for all your help.
Duane
> Igor
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