[GRASS5] html to man conversion

[Eric G . Miller]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:39:02PM +0000, Michel Wurtz wrote:
> The `chown' line works only if root runs make.  The problem is
> that the index is made by a program suid man, so if the user "man"
> cannot write in the man directory, you get an error message each
> time g.html2man runs ! On the other hand a "normal" user cannot
> give the directory to man (or cannot write man pages after that)

Unset that suid bit instead.  Is there some reason the man
command is suid?

> A better idea is to say "chmod a+w $(MANDIR)", and to restore
> the read-only flag after all pages are created (for security
> reasons). Sorry, I have no time (and no network) until next week
> to do that ! but it's straightforward ;-)

If there's a way to generate the man pages inside of the source tree,
including the index, and then "install" them into the man/man1
destination, I think that would be better/safer.  Don't know if index.bt
needs the full path or just relative would do?  I looked around at my
system man dirs, and other than this new grass one, there doesn't seem
to be any kind of index for man pages (there is a cache in
/var/cache/man).  So, is the index really necessary?  I have close to no
clue about the variants of man programs...

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>

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