From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 13 12:18:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21976 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:18:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA21890 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:18:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06507; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:17:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199808131917.PAA06507@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: man page crisis In-Reply-To: <199808131802.NAA00661@mail.socket.net> from "nathanm@socket.net" at "Aug 13, 98 06:08:44 pm" To: nathanm@socket.net Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:17:40 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG nathanm@socket.net wrote: > I can't RTFM! > I just installed off the 2.2.6 cds, and my man pages don't work. > The particular error i get is "man: cannot find the file /etc/manpath.config". > But i checked, and it's there, with permissons of 700. > Any Ideas? Yup. chmod 744 should do it. I can't imagine why manpath.config should not have world-read. (the man program is suid "man.bin") Another approach would be to change ownership of manpath.config to man.bin. Dave -- Bedford County, PA -- 47,000 polite, friendly Appalachians, 4,000 of whom have concealed-carry permits. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message