man pages not working

[rbarot]

Hi ,
I am unable to get man pages
eg.
#man lanscan

but not giving any help pages. Can anybody help me what can be wrong ?
Regds....

[Roboz]

Hi there,
Check that the directory /usr/man and its sub-directories have not been deleted or moved. Check that these directories have appropriate permissions (i.e. mode = 55 owner=bin group= bin).

There is where the man pages are stored in compressed format (*.Z files)
If so, then use the coreO/S installation CD to reinstalled via swinstall

Hope this helps.
Rob

[Steven E. Protter]

Also might want to run catman -w and see what reults you get.

SEP

[Michael Tully]

Also check the $MANPATH to see if you can see anything for your login. $MANPATH should have at least what is in /etc/MANPATH

[Sunil Sharma_1]

Hi,

Check for man page source file .Z.

check for variabel MANPATH you can set it in /etc/MANPATH file.

Sunil

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

And 1 quite tricky: check out the catman pages for empty files... If in /usr/man/cat1m or /usr/man/cat1m.Z (or other manual sections, depending on the command you try to see the manual from; lanscan in in section 1m) there is an empty file for your man page, it will not try to reformat the manual page, but show you an empty page without errors!