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 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:32:18 -0400 From: Kevin Van Workum X-X-Sender: vanw AT kirkwood To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: man 1.5j - can't find cat, tbl, nroff, less In-Reply-To: <4989AFD7505BD611961B0002A5DA3E740382BE29@NNHML2> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > When I try 'man grep' I get the following. > /bin/cat: not found > /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/grep.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 grep > > and ' man -w grep' produces > /usr/man/man1/grep.1 > > output of 'man -D grep' and 'cygcheck -svr' attached. > > NB it fails as above for any man foo where foo should have a man page. > Man foo where foo has no page returns 'No manual entry for foo' correctly. > > regards, > Bill Hughes > > <> <> > I had the same problem this morning after changing the share permission on my C-drive from Everyone, to Administrator and Kevin. Once I added Administrators (note the "s"), the problem was fixed. I guess /bin/cat, etc were owned by Administrators and not Administrator. Whatever. Kevin Van Workum, PhD National Institute of Standards and Technology Polymers Division 224/B228 -- 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/