Robert Nichols wrote:
On 01/27/2016 10:31 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
This is... odd.
From my workstation, where I'm directly logged in, if I ssh to any CentOS 7 box, as myself, and try to run man, it fails. Example 1: man dd man: cannot write to /var/cache/man/cat1/dd.1.gz in catman mode dd.
Example 2: man dd man: can't chmod (null): Bad address man: can't unlink (null): Bad address dd.
In all cases, if I sudo -s to root, I have no trouble reading the manpage. In all cases I've tried, selinux is in permissive mode.
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I've had NOCACHE set in /etc/man.config for a long time. On a modern machine there's not that much overhead generating the text page on demand, and eliminating that avoids issues with pages formatted for one window size being viewed on another.
Thanks for the suggestion. The thing that bothers me is why this should happen at all....
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