Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:56:55 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Upgraded man command Message-ID: <20041124165655.GA21269@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/