From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 15 09:37:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA09019 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:37:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA09009 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:37:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.12]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA09334; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 18:36:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.6/8.8.6) id SAA23231; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 18:36:50 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970715183649.11318@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 18:36:49 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Robert Palank Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Expansion of /man1 pages References: <199707151531.KAA28232@thor.inlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <199707151531.KAA28232@thor.inlink.com>; from Robert Palank on Wed, May 14, 1997 at 01:16:05PM -0500 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, May 14, 1997 at 01:16:05PM -0500, Robert Palank wrote: > It isn't clear to me how I'm supposed to expand the pages in man1. > I tried catman /usr/share/man/man1 and this failed with the error message > chmod: Operation not permitted. you must have write access for /usr/share/man/man1, e.g. you must be root. For more information read the catman manual page: man catman -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/