From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 11 16:40:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DBDD37B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 16:40:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4D2296AC94; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:10:46 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:10:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Charles Burns Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No man pages for root Message-ID: <20010312111046.B11986@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from burnscharlesn@hotmail.com on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 10:46:23AM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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