by >...namely and to wit, it only works when I'm root. If I
>try to use it from any other account, I get the message
>"Problem setting effective user id" and no output.
>From the output of "man -d" is appears that the problem
>is somewhere after the formatted output is copied to
>catman/whatever. Curiously, if the catman output already
>exists, I do get the man page, even when I'm not root,
>but I also get the error message described above.
>Does anyone know what causes this?
>Any help would be appreciated.
me $20 to get the answer from Yggdrasil tech support. "man" needs to
be setuid man, not setuid root. It worked for me.
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