harsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > all of a sudden i can't view the man pages. > >man man >man: can't set the effective uid: Operation not permitted. > >even when i work as the root it is the same problem.
What version of the man-db package do you have? ('dpkg -l man-db') When you say "all of a sudden", does this mean you recently upgraded it? What does 'ls -l /usr/bin/man /usr/lib/man-db/man' say? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]