On 01/27/2016 10:31 AM, m.roth at 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. > > From one of these boxes: > ls -laF /var/cache/man/ | more > total 832 > drwxr-xr-x. 38 root root 4096 Jan 27 07:52 ./ > drwxr-xr-x. 9 root root 105 Dec 28 12:42 ../ > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 190 Dec 28 13:18 CACHEDIR.TAG > drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 62 Jan 27 07:52 ca/ > drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 20 Jan 27 11:27 cat1/ > <...> > > But it's the same in CentOS 6. Clues? 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. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.