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gdbm package

  1. Bug #1001189
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 1001189

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Paul Crawford (psc-sat) wrote : Re: 'man' command fails with lseek error

Thanks for the package identification, result is:

$ apt-cache policy man-db
man-db:
  Installed: 2.6.1-2
  Candidate: 2.6.1-2
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.1-2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

It seems to be a permissions issue, in that if I su to root (we have a root account enabled on this machine) it works, and if I su to a local user it also works, but not with the NIS log-in identity.

So there seems to be two issues here:
(1) Why can't a NIS account holder access the man pages?
(2) Why, in the event it can't access them, does it not give a more helpful message to say what went wrong?