Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:10:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No man pages for root Message-ID: <20010312111046.B11986@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <F245wlib4g3Sv0YKpDS0000c457@hotmail.com>; from burnscharlesn@hotmail.com on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 10:46:23AM -0700 References: <F245wlib4g3Sv0YKpDS0000c457@hotmail.com>
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On Sunday, 11 March 2001 at 10:46:23 -0700, Charles Burns wrote: > Hello FreeBSD people, > For no apparent reason, root can no longer use man pages on my FreeBSD > machine. Normal users, however, can use man pages just fine. > Whenever any man command is given in root, root gets the message "No manual > entry for foo." > The last thing that I did was modify some of the files in /usr/share/skel, > but I fail to see what that has to do with anything. I may have unwittingly > done something else that I cannot remember, though. > Note that "manpath" returns the exact same value for both root and normal > users, which is the default manpath. > > Does anybody have any ideas as to how this might be remedied? What does "echo $MANPATH" say? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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