I had this the other day. Something, and I know not what, suddenly set the permissions of the directory man1 so as not to allow user access. Duff rpm of some kind? I can't remember what I was doing, but then often I can't remember who I am. As I remember, none of the actual file perms changed, but man1 got changed to 700 or 744 or something odd. The perms and ownerships on my (fully working system are: fergus@pc11:~/3.0.2> ls -ld /usr/share/man/man1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 28855 Jun 27 18:14 /usr/share/man/man1 fergus@pc11:~/3.0.2> ls -ld /usr/share/man/ drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 410 Mar 13 10:32 /usr/share/man/ So try setting those, you'd achieve that by being root and doing chmod 755 /usr/share/man/man1 if the perms are wrong or chown root:root /usr/share/man/man1 if the ownerships are wrong, for example. Forgive me if you knew that. HTH Fergus On Thursday 11 July 2002 14:09, you wrote:
Whenever I use man I get the following result.
man perl man: can't resolve /usr/share/man/man1/perl.1.gz: Permission denied No manual entry for perl
man ls man: can't resolve /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz: Permission denied No manual entry for ls
What can I do to resolve this problem.
Regards,
Jay