normal user cant see man pages

[Steve Wampler]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 11:53, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> I tested this on two machines running fedora (one of them I just reinstalled after doing a mistake on a dd comand...).. on both , if I try to open any man page as a normal user , I get :
> capeta:~->man cp
> No manual entry for cp
> capeta:~->
> 
> If I run the same command as root , I can see the man page... What can I do to change this? I looked around a bit and all man dirs have a 755 permission , and the owner is root , group root...

Compare:

   echo $MANPATH

for root and 'normal' users.  I'm betting root has /usr/share/man while
normal users don't...


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