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Date:      Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:36:58 -0800
From:      Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To:        John Minter <minter01@bellsouth.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lost man pages after reinstalling and upgrading macosX
Message-ID:  <B222B7B4-2CF3-11D8-9235-000393681B06@lafn.org>
In-Reply-To: <60BC2DDD-2CB0-11D8-814C-000A95761B04@bellsouth.net>
References:  <60BC2DDD-2CB0-11D8-814C-000A95761B04@bellsouth.net>

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On Dec 12, 2003, at 06:35, John Minter wrote:

> Since I have reinstalled macosx (v 10.2) and upgraded to current v 
> 10.2.8, i no longer can reach my man pages or many of my commands. on 
> startup of terminal i get message saying system cannot find manpath or 
> grep.  I have tried to track down the problem, but can't seem to get 
> the system to recognize many of my basic commands, including cp and 
> man, for example. Please help. I'm a newbie to UNIX, and have been 
> reading trying to learn it. I understand the mac's darwin is based on 
> BSD. Thanks and forgive me if I've intruded on this list with an 
> improper question.

Run Repair Disk Permissions.  Its in Utilities - Disk Utility (?).  I 
not sure of the exact name since it changed for Panther.  You may have 
to run it a couple times before all the problems are corrected.



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