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Date:	Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:56:55 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Upgraded man command
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This seems like a good candidate for bugzilla:

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=cygwin

The component for the bug would be "Cygwin Applications".

cgf

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 11:50:59AM -0500, Harig, Mark wrote:
>It's possible that he had the same problem I did,
>which is that /usr/share/misc/man.conf did not have
>write permission turned on (and so the file copying
>operation failed).
>
>Possibly, the following code in /etc/postinstall/man.sh
>should be changed:
>
>   if [ ! -e ${datadir}/misc/man.conf ] ; then
>      cp ${datadir}/misc/man.conf.default ${datadir}/misc/man.conf
>      chmod 644 ${datadir}/misc/man.conf
>   fi
>
>to:
>
>   if [ ! -e ${datadir}/misc/man.conf ] ; then
>      chmod 644 ${datadir}/misc/man.conf
>      cp ${datadir}/misc/man.conf.default ${datadir}/misc/man.conf
>   fi

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