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Juha J

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Jan 9, 2002, 5:30:23 AM1/9/02
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When I try to view any man page, there is a strange, about 10 second,
delay before *anything* happens. Next, man says it's reformatting the page
etc. There is not even any disc or CPU activity during the wait. (Disc-LED
is off; top says CPU usage is 0.0%.)

Any ideas?

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Juha J8

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Jan 9, 2002, 8:28:49 AM1/9/02
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> Does it do the delay if you redirect the output to a file?

Seems I cannot reproduce it any more. I just rebooted in between these
two emails so I must conclude the problem was either some temporary
insanity corrected by rebooting, caused by mounting /usr rw (which would
be very strange) or man being installed suid "man". Those are the only
changes I made to the system. I suspected it might be caused by suiding
the binary since sooner or later after this I first noticed the delay but
it did not correct itself by removing the suid bit so I initially thought
it was not to blame. Now, after rebooting it no longer happens, so ...
this remains a little unclear. No difference in who runs man.

Perhaps someone with an "often-rebootable alpha" can test whether the
suid affects man?

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