Re: Help wanted: Cannot use 'man' cmd
Did you change permission of directory? Especially tmp directory.
Osamu
my root is:
total 65
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Mar 28 21:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Mar 28 21:07 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 19 03:13 bin
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Mar 25 18:03 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 30 07:24 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 20480 Mar 31 06:29 dev
drwxr-xr-x 68 root root 4096 Mar 29 23:10 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 30 07:24 floppy
drwxrwsr-x 11 root staff 4096 Mar 25 22:11 home
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 30 07:24 initrd
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 10 11:42 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Feb 18 21:28 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1024 Mar 24 08:57 mnt
dr-xr-xr-x 65 root root 0 Mar 28 20:31 proc
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1024 Mar 26 15:55 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Feb 18 22:28 sbin
drwxrwxrwt 12 root root 1024 Mar 31 21:05 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Feb 18 22:15 usr
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Mar 10 11:19 var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Mar 25 18:03 vmlinuz -> /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17-gw
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Feb 19 03:36 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18pre21
and
my /var is:
total 77
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Mar 10 11:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Mar 28 21:07 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 26 06:27 backups
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Mar 10 11:44 cache
drwxrwx--- 7 root src 4096 Mar 28 13:38 cvs
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Mar 25 21:32 lib
drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 May 27 2000 local
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Mar 31 06:29 lock
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Mar 31 06:29 log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Feb 18 21:31 lost+found
drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Mar 31 12:18 mail
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Mar 31 06:25 run
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 31 21:05 samba
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Mar 15 22:21 spool
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Feb 18 22:15 state
drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 Mar 29 20:43 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 19 11:45 www
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 04:54:14AM +0200, Guenter Millahn wrote:
> Dear fellow Linux'ers,
>
> I have an off-topic question:
>
> Since I did a system upgrade on my Debian/x86 box, I cannot use the
> 'man' command no longer. I get the message:
>
> myhost# man ls
> man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied
> myhost#
>
> Any idea what I can do?
>
> Thanx for your time.
>
> --
> Guenter Millahn
>
> "The real world is still far away from be led ad absurdum by the virtual
> one." (Hal Faber, newsreel "What happened, what will be", 08/13/2000)
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