fix mandoc permissions

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Alessandro Mauri 4 years ago
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commit d43c3c8236
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      linux_general.txt

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# SYSADMIN SECTION
-Fixing mandoc.db permission denied
Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/dsdn5a/did_sudo_behaviour_change_recently/
If you ran "sudo makewatis ..." then it is possible that the file permissions
of /usr/share/man/mandoc.db and /usr/local/share/man/mandoc.db were changed from
644 (rw-r--r--) to 600 (rw-------), giving the error when viewing man pages
"... mandoc.db permission denied" or "data changed but could not update mandoc.db" etc.
To fix this simply do: sudo chmod 644 /usr/share/man/mandoc.db
sudo chmod 644 /usr/local/share/man/mandoc.db
-"acpi" is kinda important in laptops "acpi -i" for info, also "thinkpad_acpi" should be noted
-Basic commands:
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run:
"ip addr add <ip>/<mask> dev <interface>"
where ip is the desired ip and mask is the desired network mask in 2 digit format,
ex: "192.168.1.2/24" where 24 expands to 255.255.255.0
ex: "192.168.1.2/24" where 24 expands to 255.255.255.0