[2718] in SIPB_Linux_Development
man.config
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Thu Mar 18 05:47:20 1999
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 05:46:57 EST
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
This is a low-priority comment.
For a while now, users on Linux machines have had the ability to
drop *.gz catman files into lockers that they have write bits to.
This is a bit troublesome, because Irix's man program can't see a
manpage for program foo(1) if there is a file man/cat1/foo.1.gz .
(As an example of this problem, the outland locker's man
directories tend to become polluted like this, because it's a RW
afs volume, and lots of people have write access to it. I
cleaned out outland's cat* directories tonight, actually.)
One workaround is to alter the man.config file. I've changed my
man.config file to use "/bin/cat" as it's compressor program, an
told it to use an extension of "" on the end of catman pages.
And I get what I want: man is able to uncompress existing
compressed pages, but any new pages that it tries to compress
only end up being run through "cat", which is mostly harmless.
I would certainly recommend that anyone with AFS bits in
non-personal lockers apply this patch to their systems, and
I also submit it for your consideration in case you feel like
changing the default man.config files installed on freshly
installed machines.
-Jacob
===================================================================
RCS file: /etc/RCS/man.config,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 /etc/man.config
--- /etc/man.config 1999/03/18 10:37:08 1.1
+++ /etc/man.config 1999/03/18 10:38:04
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@
#
# Compress cat pages
#
-COMPRESS /bin/gzip
-COMPRESS_EXT .gz
+COMPRESS /bin/cat
+COMPRESS_EXT
#
# Default manual sections (and order) to search if -S is not specified
# and the MANSECT environment variable is not set.
