On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Austin Jones wrote:
> Anybody now what the directory "catman" pertains to?
>
> There are a bunch of smaller directories called cat1...cat7 located within.
>
> thanks..
>
Hi Austin,
the /var/catman directories are sort of like a cache for your man
pages. Your man pages are in *roff format so theres a bit of work to be
done to make them readable. Once the conversion is done it stashes a copy
in /var/catman for future use. So ...
/usr/man/man1/man.1.gz
.. becomes..
/var/catman/cat1/man.1.gz
Having to write to /var/catman is acutally the reason why /usr/bin/man is
sgid man.
M.
P.S. One of the things /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch does is clean out the
/var/catman directories of old stuff.
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