Re: man page problem

From: Tim Robbins (tjr_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 06/26/04

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To: Tom Dymond <tom@kmem.org>

    On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:33:58AM +0200, Tom Dymond wrote:
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > I've got this small problem on my server that i find annoying :
    >
    > When a user who's limit's are close (limited by login.conf) tries to read
    > a man page, the groff process fails and produces an empty cat man page.
    > Later requests for this man page will then fail.
    >
    > I tried googling first and found this PR that *appears* identical :
    >
    > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=gnu/5767
    [...]

    PR 32791 may also be of interest to you -- It describes multiple ways a user
    can could incorrect catpages to be cached in FreeBSD 4.x and earlier releases.

    I suggest removing /usr/bin/man's suid bit to disable the caching of
    catpages, and adding MANBUILDCAT=yes to /etc/make.conf if you find that
    pages are taking too long to display. (I can't actually remember whether
    removing man's suid bit is sufficient; there may be some other configuration
    changes necessary.)

    Tim
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