SUMMARY: 'man' not working

From: jacques.rall@za.eds.com
Date: Fri Nov 08 1996 - 12:44:54 CST


My original question:
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Dear all,

Why does 'man' spew the following message at my screen?

# man hosts.equiv
Reformatting page. Wait...nroff: cannot create temp file.
 done
#

The file permissions on /tmp is 3777.

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Answer: For some strange reason there were no /usr/tmp in our system.
 The following:

        # cd /usr
        # ln -s /var/tmp tmp

... fixed it.

Q: I recently installed freeware from the internet and maybe the
scripts that it executes when running the 'pkgadd' command did some
dubious stuff?

Thanks a stack.



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