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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: man can't find /etc/manpath.config?
Date: 19 May 1996 23:46:15 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <abobaDrnvnr.8q7@netcom.com>,
Bernard Aboba <aboba@netcom.com> wrote:
>In installing a second hard drive, I caused some problems on the first 
>drive, and have had to recover some missing files. Everything now seems
>back to normal, with the exception of man. It claims that it can't find
>/etc/manpath.config when it is right there.

This sounds like it could be a permissions problem. On my system, it's

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  871 Nov 16  1995 /etc/manpath.config

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
jraynard@dial.pipex.com
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk