"truss man" doesn't show *anything*

Fernando Gleiser fgleiser at cactus.fi.uba.ar
Mon Jun 16 10:13:10 PDT 2003


On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Steve Coile wrote:

> I've just installed a new software package that includes manual pages.
> When I try to read the pages with "man -M <path> <page>", I'm told the
> manual page doesn't exist.  When I use "truss man -M <path> <page>",
> truss generates *NO* output.  Is that normal?

Yes. It is normal. man is SUID and you can't trace (via ktrace, truss
or a debugger) a SUID executable, unless you're root.


			Fer



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