Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" To: Subject: RE: Problems with man Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:56:19 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: <3F294189.6090405@cygwin.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf > Of Larry Hall > 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: > > Is it bash you're running below here? > > duane AT 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 AT USD22C821 ~ > > $ sh > > \[\033]0;\w\007 > > \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] IIRC the default "sh" is the same as "ash" which in turn is a very _cutdown_ build. It is included just for "install script" stuff. Please, do correct me if I'm wrong! I'd reccommend using /bin/bash based on these facts. Unless you plan to go and recompile "sh" or "ash" yourself. > > $ 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? Might this be about not running bash, but something else? /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems - 59?14'N, 17?12'E --END OF MESSAGE-- -- 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/