On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:08:34PM +0530, harsha wrote:
> hi,
>all of a sudden i can't view the man pages.
oh. i thought you were looking for date advice there,
for a minute.
(i shouldn't, i know -- but sometimes it's too hard to resist.)
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harsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> all of a sudden i can't view the man pages.
>
>man man
>man: can't set the effective uid: Operation not permitted.
>
>even when i work as the root it is the same problem.
What version of the man-db package do you have? ('dpkg -l man-db') When
you say "all of
hi,
all of a sudden i can't view the man pages.
man man
man: can't set the effective uid: Operation not permitted.
even when i work as the root it is the same problem.
would appreciate help on this
thanks in advance
harsha
Subject: man problems
Date: Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:07:10AM -0500
In reply to:Marc Mongeon
Quoting Marc Mongeon([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I just installed gettyps, and I'm having trouble with the associated man
> pages. I've never had to do anything special before
I just installed gettyps, and I'm having trouble with the associated man
pages. I've never had to do anything special before to see man pages
after installation. What follows is system information and some shell
dialog (all commands executed as root, "i>" is what I typed in and "o>"
is the system
I seem to get a strange error when I view some manpages with a non-prived
account.
I notice that /var/catman is nowrite for group and world, and I assume
that's the problem, but I'm assuming that I'm not actually supposed to
change the permissions to something else
for
Whenever I invoke man as user for a man page I havne't read before I get
this:
bash-2.01$ man pppd
Reformatting pppd(8), please wait...
man: can't create /var/catman/cat8/572: Bad file descriptor
zsoelim: /tmp/zman00572aaa: No such file or directory
man: can't remove /tmp/zman00572aaa: Bad file
On 7 Jan, XRD Lab wrote:
>
> How do I update the database ...
man -u
(mandb should anyway run weekly at 6 am), but your problem 1) is related
to your solution to 2).
>
> 2. I recently installed MuPAD. To access its manuals, I added the
> following line to /etc/profile
>
> MANPATH=$MANP
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using Debian 1.3 since six months and am happy with the distribution.
> I have a couple of problems for which I need some help:
>
> 1. I have installed offix-files for which there is manpage files.1x.gz in
> /usr/X11R6/man/man1. But 'man files' says 'No manual entry...' I also g
Hi,
I am using Debian 1.3 since six months and am happy with the distribution.
I have a couple of problems for which I need some help:
1. I have installed offix-files for which there is manpage files.1x.gz in
/usr/X11R6/man/man1. But 'man files' says 'No manual entry...' I also get
a message that
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