On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 02:49:17AM -0500, Claudio Sanchez III wrote: > I just installed debian potato on my PowerBase. Now I get this error > whenever trying to view a man page: > > $ man man > man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied > > Man package is man-db_2.3.16-1.deb from ftp.debian.org. Installs ok. > Try to make database: > > # mandb > Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man... > fopen: No such file or directory > Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man'. Wait...mandb: can't create > a temporary filename: Permission denied > what the the permissions on /tmp, please run: ls -ld /tmp it should look like this: drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 2048 May 21 06:49 /tmp if not run: chmod 1777 /tmp sometimes for whatever reason these permissions do not get set properly. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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