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?
Thanks for the package identification, result is:
$ apt-cache policy man-db gb.archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages dpkg/status
man-db:
Installed: 2.6.1-2
Candidate: 2.6.1-2
Version table:
*** 2.6.1-2 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
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?