Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Chris Herborth Subject: Re: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions? Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:00:50 -0400 Organization: QNX Software Systems Ltd. Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: <000601c47959$a89a9610$0100a8c0@asswipe> <6.1.0.6.0.20040805134603.033540d8@pop.prospeed.net> Reply-To: cherborth@qnx.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mobius.qnx.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.0.20040805134603.033540d8@pop.prospeed.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Larry Hall wrote: >>I haven't seen that, but when I try to use 'man', I get this error: >> >>troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P-c -mandoc': No such file or directory >> >>I've tried tracking down this problem, presumably in one of the shell scripts (such as /usr/bin/nroff), without luck. > > Just a WAG but I'd suggest checking you '/usr/sharemisc/man.conf' file > for it's NROFF settings. Looks like yours is adding a '-P' option > without proper spacing. It's got this: NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc /usr/bin/nroff has this inside: case $1 in -c) opts="$opts -P-c" ;; -h) opts="$opts -P-h" ;; adding spaces between -P and {-c,-h} gives this error: troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P -c -mandoc': No such file or directory Adding -x to #!/bin/sh in /usr/bin/nroff suggests that for "man foo" the "foo" doesn't make it into the call to groff at the end of the script and that the additional args are being passed as a single argument: CHerborth@qnxws7083 [502]: man bash + prog=/usr/bin/nroff + opts= + opts= -P-c + shift + opts= -P-c -mandoc + shift + : /usr/bin + export GROFF_BIN_PATH + PATH=/usr/bin:/c/emacs-21.3/bin:/cygdrive/d/cherborth/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/d/cherborth/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/s ystem32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/Progra m Files/ATI Technologies/ATI Control Panel:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Common File s/GTK/2.0/bin:.:/cygdrive/c/QNX6.3.0/host/win32/x86/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Program Files/QNX Software Systems/bin groff -mtty-char -Tascii -P-c -mandoc troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P-c -mandoc': No such file or directory -- Chris Herborth (cherborth@qnx.com) Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/