lost man pages after reinstalling and upgrading macosX
Since I have reinstalled macosx (v 10.2) and upgraded to current v 10.2.8, i no longer can reach my man pages or many of my commands. on startup of terminal i get message saying system cannot find manpath or grep. I have tried to track down the problem, but can't seem to get the system to recognize many of my basic commands, including cp and man, for example. Please help. I'm a newbie to UNIX, and have been reading trying to learn it. I understand the mac's darwin is based on BSD. Thanks and forgive me if I've intruded on this list with an improper question. Everybody does it, but only a few do it well! John Minter, Chief Writer A Writing Studio P.O. Box 563294 Charlotte, NC 28256 704-891-3052 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost man pages after reinstalling and upgrading macosX
John Minter wrote: Since I have reinstalled macosx (v 10.2) and upgraded to current v 10.2.8, i no longer can reach my man pages or many of my commands. on startup of terminal i get message saying system cannot find manpath or grep. I have tried to track down the problem, but can't seem to get the system to recognize many of my basic commands, including cp and man, for example. Please help. I'm a newbie to UNIX, and have been reading trying to learn it. I understand the mac's darwin is based on BSD. Thanks and forgive me if I've intruded on this list with an improper question. Well, first thing, wrap your lines for the benefit of the guyz whose MUA's like to see newlines. If you know the path to system binaries, explicity calling them at the prompt may help, e.g.: #/bin/ls -l /home/mydir If Darwin's much like BSD, you should see, when doing ls -l in your homedir, several files with a dot in front of them, (e.g. .cshrc, .profile, .login) These files help set up stuff like your binary search path. Any chance they were clobbered in your upgrade? Echoing an environment variable may tell you what path is currently set, e.g.: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/home/kadmin][8:32] #echo $PATH /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin: /usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin:/usr/local/libexec/nut --- In BSD, manpath(1) uses the contents of the user's search path to attempt to determine the path to manual pages, so I'd start by fixing the search path problem. What shell do you use? In csh/tcsh, #set PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin (etc) may help. In sh/bash, I *think* it's $PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin: (etc..) $export PATH; HTH somewhat, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost man pages after reinstalling and upgrading macosX
On Dec 12, 2003, at 06:35, John Minter wrote: Since I have reinstalled macosx (v 10.2) and upgraded to current v 10.2.8, i no longer can reach my man pages or many of my commands. on startup of terminal i get message saying system cannot find manpath or grep. I have tried to track down the problem, but can't seem to get the system to recognize many of my basic commands, including cp and man, for example. Please help. I'm a newbie to UNIX, and have been reading trying to learn it. I understand the mac's darwin is based on BSD. Thanks and forgive me if I've intruded on this list with an improper question. Run Repair Disk Permissions. Its in Utilities - Disk Utility (?). I not sure of the exact name since it changed for Panther. You may have to run it a couple times before all the problems are corrected. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
