Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVbb+LCJSEzIWA0PpU/Pfj9nZVEiSfZRyXstL9igDv3ataHz06VyBT64 Message-ID: <3F294189.6090405@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:19:21 -0400 From: Larry Hall Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR)" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems with man References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kaufman, Duane (MED, LUNAR) wrote: > Hi > > I recently installed Cygwin on my desktop machine (Win2k 5.00.2195 > Service Pack 2), and I am having trouble with getting man pages. Here is > some output: > > duane@USD22C821 ~ > $ man man > /usr/bin/tbl: not found > /bin/cat: not found > /usr/bin/nroff: not found > /usr/bin/less: not found > Error executing formatting or display command. > System command (cd /usr/man && (echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/cat > '/usr/man/man1/man.1' > ; echo; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc > | /usr/ > bin/less -isrR) exited with status 32512. > No manual entry for man > > I have read the FAQ, and yes, I have ash installed. Trying the same from > a sh: > > duane@USD22C821 ~ > $ sh > \[\033]0;\w\007 > \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] > $ man man > /usr/bin/tbl: not found > /usr/bin/nroff: not found > /usr/bin/less: not found > Error executing formatting or display command. > System command (cd /usr/man && (echo ".pl 1100i"; /bin/cat > '/usr/man/man1/man.1' > ; echo; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc > | /usr/ > bin/less -isrR) exited with status 32512. > No manual entry for man > \[\033]0;\w\007 > \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] > > What do I have configured wrong? This looks like a permission problem but there's nothing obviously wrong from your setup log or cygwcheck output. Can you invoke any of these directly from bash without problems? What do the ownerships look like on these files? What does 'getfacl' say for these files? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/