Man Page Trouble

[Scott Hewes]

Does anybody know why I get the message:

aborted (sorry)

when I try to access various manpages such as pvdisplay and a regular user? If I then access the manpage with superuser, I can see it. Then, if I go back to being a regular user, I can then see the manpage.

How do i fix this?

[S.K. Chan · Accepted solution]

Is it just the LVM related man pages or all of the other commands as well. Does
$ man cp
works ? There are 3 probably cause, 1) patches and 2) permission (/tmp or /var/tmp) 3) corrupted man pages.

[Rodney Hills]

could it be permission to /tmp or /var/tmp?

If a regular user doesn't have access, then "man" can't uncompress any compressed "man" pages.

-- Rod Hills

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi,

Does /var/adm/syslog show any errors from the user access? Seems strange that root can access then all is OK afterwards. Sounds to me like a shell or user env problem & when you exit shell all is OK again.
You can test that by su to another user name from org user & test access. Or exit & relogin as same user w/o going to root & test access.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Jeff Schussele]

Another thing to consider is anything altering your MANPATH?
echo $MANPATH when prob occurs & compare it to root's $MANPATH. I wonder if an app is setting a new MANPTAH w/o retaining the org MANPATH?

HTH,
Jeff

[Scott Hewes]

Kudos to S.K. and Rodney! The permissions for /tmp and /var/tmp were set to 755. As soonI changed these to 777 all was OK. This is brand new machine. I am not sure how these got changed. Doesn't the default installation for HPUX 11i set the permissions for /tmp and /var/tmp to 777?