setting fille capabilities.

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 13:21 -0700, 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

You are finding the man page for caps-to-text not the file itself.
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