Robert Nichols wrote: > 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. <snip> > 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.... mark