On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 04:54:14AM +0200, Guenter Millahn wrote: > Dear fellow Linux'ers, > > I have an off-topic question: > > Since I did a system upgrade on my Debian/x86 box, I cannot use the > 'man' command no longer. I get the message: > > myhost# man ls > man: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied > myhost# > > Any idea what I can do? > > Thanx for your time.
I assume the temp file it wants to create is the cat page, the page preformated. Normally, it goes to /var/cache/man/cat<section>. Check that you did not change the permissions on theses dir : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/man$ ls -l total 1096 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 avr 3 07:43 cat1 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 mar 20 06:53 cat2 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 avr 3 07:43 cat3 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 mar 20 06:53 cat4 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 mar 20 06:53 cat5 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 mar 20 06:53 cat6 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 mar 20 06:53 cat7 drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 4096 mar 20 06:53 cat8 drwxr-sr-x 8 man root 4096 mar 29 08:25 fsstnd -rw-r--r-- 1 man root 1077248 avr 2 07:29 index.bt drwxr-sr-x 7 man root 4096 mar 29 08:24 X11R6 Hope this helps. Bye, Mt.
