Re: broken man pages

2001-05-22 Thread Colin Watson
Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've got a problem with my man pages. For some reason the permissions >are wrong and it can't create a temporary file. > >stiq:~# man man >man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied >stiq:~# That suggests that /tmp, or whatever your $TMPDI

Re: broken man pages

2001-05-22 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:06:50PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > stiq:~# man man > man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied > stiq:~# man cannot write to $TMPDIR (or /tmp if $TMPDIR isn't set). Permissions should be 1777 on /tmp. noah -- _

broken man pages

2001-05-22 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Hi All, I've got a problem with my man pages. For some reason the permissions are wrong and it can't create a temporary file. stiq:~# man man man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied stiq:~# Any ideas? Thanks, Andy

Re: Broken Man pages after uprade!

1998-02-26 Thread fpolacco
On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 02:07:21PM -0500, Scott Ellis wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: > > > I just installed the man-db and manpages packges from hamm. (Before > > I was using the old ones from Bo). > > Now, whenever I try to man anything, it says: > > sh: /usr/bin/pager

Re: Broken Man pages after uprade!

1998-02-23 Thread Bill Leach
"Less" 'set it up' (or rather the less package set it up). This is a relatively new scheme for handling utilities that can have more than one version installed but are also used by other programs. Thus, you can have 'more', 'less', 'muchmore', 'xless', and who knows how many others installed and

Re: Broken Man pages after uprade!

1998-02-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: > Hi, > I just installed the man-db and manpages packges from hamm. (Before > I was using the old ones from Bo). > Now, whenever I try to man anything, it says: > sh: /usr/bin/pager: No such file or directory > sh: exec: /usr/bin/pager: cannot exec

Re: Broken Man pages after uprade!

1998-02-23 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: > I just installed the man-db and manpages packges from hamm. (Before > I was using the old ones from Bo). > Now, whenever I try to man anything, it says: > sh: /usr/bin/pager: No such file or directory > sh: exec: /usr/bin/pager: cannot execute: N

Broken Man pages after uprade!

1998-02-23 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi, I just installed the man-db and manpages packges from hamm. (Before I was using the old ones from Bo). Now, whenever I try to man anything, it says: sh: /usr/bin/pager: No such file or directory sh: exec: /usr/bin/pager: cannot execute: No such file or directory. Where can I get this pager thi