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Manpages in Solaris8

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Name: Anand
Date: January 15, 2002 at 14:04:30 Pacific
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Hi,

On my sun box, i have a problem.I am not able to run man pages.Only for few commands i am getting the help like ls, cp, diff and etc. If i am running man for ifconfig or luxadm or ps ...it displays there are No manual entry for ps.

When i am investigating, i found that on /usr/share/man dir has the following permissions for root

dr-xr-xr-x and it is owened by root:root

I cannot even cd to man dir from /usr/share.

How do i fix the problem. I beleive the /usr/share/man dir should
owened by root:bin and the permissions should be 775.

SUNWman PKG is installed completely on the system. This PKG is corresponding for man pages.

My .profile is set to following MANPATH


MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/bin/man:/usr/openwin/man:/usr/dt/man:/usr/openwin/share/man:/usr/local/share/bin:/usr/share/man



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Name: Mark M
Date: January 19, 2002 at 02:34:41 Pacific
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Well my man dir is /usr/share looks like this:

drwxr-xr-x 44 bin bin 1024 Dec 9 22:42 man/

and i can change to it from a staff group account. You may want to try using chown to reset this.

Also check that there aren't any weird acl's set on it (do you have a + on the end of the permissions?).

if you're only geting certain man help pages, then it's possible that you may have to run catman -w to regenerate the windex database.


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