man command errors

[Ashish Parashar]

Hello Gurus ..

I am facing a sterange problem for particular user.

few man command are working but rest are returning prompt after Refarmatting Wait .... status ...

for example
man cp ...works but man of others just return prompt...



what may be the cause ??

I have checked /usr/share/man ,.profile ,.bash_profile and all that ...didn;t found anything starnge :(

Regards

Ashish

[Pete Randall]

Any file systems full? Check bdf output.


Pete

[Ashish Parashar]

no ..everything is normal

[Pete Randall]

Is the MANPATH variable set properly or is there anything unusual about this user's environment?


Pete

[Ganesan R]

Hi Ashish,

Is it happening only for particular user? or group of users?

If it is for particular users, are other users having same privilage able to access?

[Pete Randall]

Is this user able to access "nroff"? If not, they would only be able to see the uncompressed entries.


Pete

[Ashish Parashar]

Yes this issue is for particular user ...which same privileges thne others ....starnge thing is man cp and man ls works ..but not other man pages ....if this is the issue of previlages then not a single man page work.

Regards

Ashish

[Ashish Parashar]

hellp pete

User is able to execute nroff :(

[Ganesan R]

Hi,

Check man path for that particular user and compare it with working user.

#echo $MANPATH

[Ashish Parashar]

Hello Ganesan

MANPATH is also same ....no difference:...I have also mentioned this in my question