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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!decwrl!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: man can't find /etc/manpath.config? Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 12:39:40 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 26 Message-ID: <31A6107C.72A1@www.play-hookey.com> References: <abobaDrnvnr.8q7@netcom.com> <4nobs7$mh9@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <31A47E70.4E1E@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Ken Bigelow wrote: > > James Raynard wrote: > > > > In article <abobaDrnvnr.8q7@netcom.com>, > > Bernard Aboba <aboba@netcom.com> wrote: > > >In installing a second hard drive, I caused some problems on the first > > >drive, and have had to recover some missing files. Everything now seems > > >back to normal, with the exception of man. It claims that it can't find > > >/etc/manpath.config when it is right there. > > > > This sounds like it could be a permissions problem. On my system, it's > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 871 Nov 16 1995 /etc/manpath.config > > > > You might also check your /etc/manpath.config file -- that's how man > knows where to look for various groups of man pages. > Sorry -- the above really looks dumb. What I *meant* to say was that you should check the *format* of your /etc/manpath.config file. If you edited it at all, as in deleting comments, you may have changed something that man is looking for and needs. Ken