diff --git a/linux_general.txt b/linux_general.txt index c8b3a70..899d16e 100644 --- a/linux_general.txt +++ b/linux_general.txt @@ -75,6 +75,15 @@ # 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: @@ -568,4 +577,4 @@ run: "ip addr add / dev " 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 \ No newline at end of file + ex: "192.168.1.2/24" where 24 expands to 255.255.255.0