. . . And how can I fix that? :-) I'm running RHEL 5 and when I try to view man pages as a regular user, they are blank. I've tried man man > manman.txt; cat manman.txt
and there is no output, i.e., the file has no length. I try sudo man man
and I see beautiful man page output.
I've looked at the permissions under /usr/share/man and they look okay. The directories are all o+rwx and the files are o+r.
I've tried . . .
[me@host01 ~]$ sudo man -w man
/usr/share/man/en/man1/man.1.gz
[me@host01 ~]$ man /usr/share/man/en/man1/man.1.gz
. . . and that's blank also.
man su
work for you? – Faheem Mitha Jul 28 '14 at 21:35zcat /usr/share/man/en/man1/man.1.gz
produce? A man page or an error message? – Mark Plotnick Jul 28 '14 at 21:48man
uses to display its contents. unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23394/… – slm♦ Jul 28 '14 at 22:48man -M /usr/share/man/en/man1 man
and see if that works. If it does, then yourMANPATH
isn't properly defined for your regular user. – Warwick Jul 28 '14 at 23:36