From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 31 7:15:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4FD015BF9 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 07:15:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id KAA04065; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:14:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903311514.KAA04065@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Manpath strageness In-Reply-To: <19990331105422.A18877@scientia.demon.co.uk> from Ben Smithurst at "Mar 31, 99 10:54:22 am" To: ben@scientia.demon.co.uk (Ben Smithurst) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:14:51 -0500 (EST) Cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst wrote, > Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > [120:~] man procmail > > No manual entry for procmail > > What does "man -d procmail" say for those users? That sometimes gives > some helpful information. I'm sure you don't want the _full_ 'man -d' output, so I have snipped it down to the interesting parts. Everything in finding the man direcroties in the manpath goes just fine. It starts to look for the page and we get to the right location, searching in /usr/local/man trying section 1 with globbing globbing /usr/local/man/man1/procmail.1* to_name in convert_name () is: /usr/local/man/cat1/procmail.1.gz will try to write /usr/local/man/cat1/procmail.1.gz if needed Which looks to me like everything is fine, but it keeps looking. After several hundred lines, we finally get to the end and, No manual entry for procmail When I do the same for a user who _can_ see the page, I get, searching in /usr/local/man trying section 1 with globbing globbing /usr/local/man/man1/procmail.1* to_name in convert_name () is: /usr/local/man/cat1/procmail.1.gz will try to write /usr/local/man/cat1/procmail.1.gz if needed status from is_newer() = 0 trying command: /usr/bin/zcat /usr/local/man/cat1/procmail.1.gz | more When I worte both outputs to files and diff'ed them, the differences begin at the 'status from is_newer() = 0' line. They are identical to that point. In addition, this was done by su'ing to the user who cannot get the page (without the '-' option). The environment should not have changed at all between the users, yet I still get this. Any ideas? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message