From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 11 21:23:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f188.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.17.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B671437B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:23:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from burnscharlesn@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 21:23:18 -0800 Received: from 24.21.122.151 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 05:23:18 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.21.122.151] From: "Charles Burns" To: grog@lemis.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No man pages for root Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:23:18 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Mar 2001 05:23:18.0855 (UTC) FILETIME=[8C269D70:01C0AAB4] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A second reboot seems to have fixed the problem. Odd. Thanks for the reply, though. >From: Greg Lehey >To: Charles Burns >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