Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:23:18 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: grog@lemis.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No man pages for root Message-ID: <F1885CBUzN8I2lreZkH00006af0@hotmail.com>
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A second reboot seems to have fixed the problem. Odd. Thanks for the reply, though. >From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> >To: Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> >CC: questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: No man pages for root >Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:10:46 +1030 > >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 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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