Re: man pages as user
on Fri, 03 Jan 2003 12:25:40AM +0000, Karsten M. Self insinuated:
> on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:35:48PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen (nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu) wrote:
> > on the system i'm bringing up, i can read manpages as root, but
> > not as myself. when i try, i get the following two errors:
> >
> > mikan~> man man
> > (null): can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct
>
> I'm not positive, but this should help. As root:
>
> # dpkg-reconfigure locales
> # locale-gen
solved it, thanks. i'd been through that menu twice or more, but it
worked this time round. thanks!
> > man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied
>
> # chmod 1777 /tmp
perfect, just what i needed.
> > perl is also giving me errors along the lines of the first one.
> > i've configured my locales ... and i've seen this recently on
> > debian-user, so i'll keep googling for that one.
>
> First fix should hit this as well.
yup, it did.
thanks!
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