Re: Help wanted: Cannot use 'man' cmd

[Martin Quinson <Martin.Quinson@ens-lyon.fr>]

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.

I assume the temp file it wants to create is the cat page, the page
preformated. Normally, it goes to /var/cache/man/cat<section>. Check that
you did not change the permissions on theses dir :

mquinson@pixies:/var/cache/man$ ls -l
total 1096
drwxr-sr-x    2 man      root         4096 avr  3 07:43 cat1
drwxr-sr-x    2 man      root         4096 mar 20 06:53 cat2
drwxr-sr-x    2 man      root         4096 avr  3 07:43 cat3
drwxr-sr-x    2 man      root         4096 mar 20 06:53 cat4
drwxr-sr-x    2 man      root         4096 mar 20 06:53 cat5
drwxr-sr-x    2 man      root         4096 mar 20 06:53 cat6
drwxr-sr-x    2 man      root         4096 mar 20 06:53 cat7
drwxr-sr-x    2 man      root         4096 mar 20 06:53 cat8
drwxr-sr-x    8 man      root         4096 mar 29 08:25 fsstnd
-rw-r--r--    1 man      root      1077248 avr  2 07:29 index.bt
drwxr-sr-x    7 man      root         4096 mar 29 08:24 X11R6

Hope this helps.

Bye, Mt.