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demian
03-03-2001, 12:59 PM
... but I can't :(
I just moved my system to a couple of new partitions. Everything seems to work fine only when I try to read man pages it gives me an error:
man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied

It doesn't matter if I try it as user or root. The permissions in /var/cache/man are rwxr-sr-x and the directory is owned by man.root (This is default in debian, I guess, cause I never changed anything there)

Any ideas about how to get my beloved man pages back?

Cheers,demian

Gaccm
03-03-2001, 06:48 PM
hmmm... the only idea i can give is to apt-get remove man; apt-get install man
what version of man do u have? do you apt-get update from the stable, testing or unstable branch?

demian
03-03-2001, 07:07 PM
Hehe, I just forgot to set the sticky bit on the /tmp directory. I didn't know that man creates temporary files there so it took me a while 'til I figured it out.