From: stern@amath.washington.edu (L.G. "Ted" Stern) Subject: Re: [SUMMARY] SLS Experiences Date: 31 Mar 1993 17:58:44 GMT
In article <C4q373.Eq9@crdnns.crd.ge.com>, davidsen@yeti.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
|>
|> For what it's worth, my only problem with SLS which is not a general
|> problem with Linux is the permissions. Every release I get to go through
|> and change the same things which have been posted here before. Minor
|> stuff, I wouldn't mention it, but the question was asked.
|>
|> It's nice that SLS includes C, C++, F77, Pascal, BASIC, and LISP, and
|> therefore I like to set permissions so they can be used by non-root
|> users. There were problems with X access, but I'm temporarily not
|> loading that until I find time to repartition my disk or teach Linux to
|> use my net card so I can mount some of my other systems at home via NFS.
|>
|> --
|> bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
|>
I can second this. And there are a number of permission problems in the X
installation:
1) You have to do a few symbolic links so 'xman' will work:
cd /usr/bin
ln -s gtbl tbl
ln -s groff nroff # this may be there already
ln -s geqn neqn
2) The scores tables for several games are not writable by non-root users. I
mean, really! If I'm going to waste time, I should at least get credit for
it!
3) If you use openwindows, you really need to do a
cd /usr/openwindows
chmod -R go+r *
You may have to do this in a lot of directories, such as /lib, /usr/lib,
/usr/X386, etc.
I really do appreciate having the man pages available in this version of SLS
(3/20/93 SLS 0.99p6), but there quite a few man pages in the wrong subdirectories
of /usr/man. How the man pages work:
There is a .../man directory someplace. It has subdirectories man1, man2, etc.,
cat1, cat2, etc. The files in the man? subdirectories are in nroff/groff format.
The files in the cat? subdirectories are already formatted.
(***And in SLS, they are probably also compressed!***) When you man
something, man first looks in the appropriate cat? subdirectory. For SLS man, it
looks for something like /usr/man/cat?/something.?.Z (replace ? with a single
digit number). If it finds this, it uncompresses it and pipes it to 'less'. So
if you get a man page that looks like garbage, it is because man has found a file
in the cat? subdirectory that ought to be in the man? subdirectory. You can
move it over there, but you may have to uncompress it.
Also, the cat? subdirectories should be readable and writable by non-root users.
To some, this is a matter of taste, of course. You may not want the cat? clutter
to escalate.
Incidentally Peter, how do we update /usr/man/whatis in SLS? You have explained
before why mkwhatis will not work but not what to do about it. (at least where I
could find it in the SLS.FAQ or the FAQ).
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