setting fille capabilities.

[Kevin Martin]

On 02/13/2012 02:21 PM, stan wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:00:43 -0600
> Kevin Martin <kevintm at ameritech.net> wrote:
>>> Try 
>>> man 3 cap_from_text
>> When *I* do that the man page is not found (nor do I see it in the
>> libcap rpm which is where setcap is installed from...perhaps the
>> package maintainer should fix their rpm).
> That's bizarre.  Pops right up on my system (F15 x86_64).
>
> $ rpm -q --filesbypkg libcap
> libcap                    /lib64/libcap.so.2
> libcap                    /lib64/libcap.so.2.22
> libcap                    /lib64/security/pam_cap.so
> libcap                    /usr/sbin/capsh
> libcap                    /usr/sbin/getcap
> libcap                    /usr/sbin/getpcaps
> libcap                    /usr/sbin/setcap
> libcap                    /usr/share/doc/libcap-2.22
> libcap                    /usr/share/doc/libcap-2.22/License
> libcap                    /usr/share/doc/libcap-2.22/capability.notes
> libcap                    /usr/share/man/man1/capsh.1.gz
> libcap                    /usr/share/man/man8/getcap.8.gz
> libcap                    /usr/share/man/man8/setcap.8.gz
>
> Mystery solved.
>
> $ rpm -q --filesbypkg libcap-devel
> libcap-devel              /lib64/libcap.so
> libcap-devel              /usr/include/sys
> libcap-devel              /usr/include/sys/capability.h
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_clear.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_clear_flag.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_compare.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_copy_ext.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_copy_int.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_drop_bound.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_dup.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_free.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_from_name.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_from_text.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_get_bound.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_get_fd.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_get_file.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_get_flag.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_get_pid.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_get_proc.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_init.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_set_fd.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_set_file.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_set_flag.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_set_proc.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_size.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_to_name.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/cap_to_text.3.gz    <--
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/capgetp.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/capsetp.3.gz
> libcap-devel              /usr/share/man/man3/libcap.3.gz

AAAAHHHHHHHHAAAA!  That answers it.  Just too bad that you have the devel package installed to get to a man page referenced by
another man page.

But thanks for the info.

Kevin