From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 6 12:02:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1257016A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:02:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from catseye.mine.nu (d154-5-164-0.bchsia.telus.net [154.5.164.0]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 13F0F43FF3 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:02:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from catseye@catseye.mine.nu) Received: (qmail 41012 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Nov 2003 20:05:35 -0000 Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:05:35 -0800 From: Chris Pressey To: Forrest Aldrich Message-Id: <20031106120535.59e936ee.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20031106134936.01f376c8@192.168.1.1> References: <6.0.0.22.2.20031106134936.01f376c8@192.168.1.1> Organization: Cat's Eye Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble using the "man" subsystem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 20:02:57 -0000 On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 13:52:10 -0500 Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > I posted about this a while ago. > > For some time, I've had a broken manpage system on my FreeBSB > box. Currently, it's at FreeBSD-4.9. > > The symptoms are: sometimes I get an error about not being able to > locate tmac for tty-char. Though I can find that in > /usr/local/share/groff, etc. Most times, I will do "man command" and > the prompt just returns. Nothing, nada. > > I'm absolutely puzzled, because a reinstall (makeworld/buildworld) > does NOT resolve the problem. I cannot see there to be any odd > environment variables, however this suggests there may be a > configuration issue "somewhere". I'm out of ideas, and wonder if > anyone out there has suggestions about where to look, how to fix this. Well, you can take a look at $MANPATH, to start. Then see if the command is anywhere in there, e.g. if you are looking for foo in section 2 of the manual, it's likely stored as /usr/share/man/man2/foo.2.gz , or /usr/local/man/man2/foo.2.gz , etc. -Chris