man command get error message

[Alex Shi]

Hi,

I don't know what had happened with my system, but it seems like somthing
wrong and caused many things behave strangely. One thing is for man: when
running man it does not returns the help information but returns following

fgets: No such file or directory
Error reading man page /usr/share/man/path_to_the_command_man_page
No manual entry for command

I don't understand what this error means. Is fgets a shell command? As I
know
it is a function of C, Perl, PHP, etc..But why it gives such an error?

Alex

[Robert Melson]

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On Saturday 07 August 2004 16:45, Alex Shi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't know what had happened with my system, but it seems like
> somthing wrong and caused many things behave strangely. One thing is
> for man: when running man it does not returns the help information but
> returns following
>
> fgets: No such file or directory
> Error reading man page /usr/share/man/path_to_the_command_man_page
> No manual entry for command
>
> I don't understand what this error means. Is fgets a shell command? As
> I know
> it is a function of C, Perl, PHP, etc..But why it gives such an error?
>
> Alex

man 3 fgets

fgets, gets -- get a line from a stream

part of the standard C library.

Sounds like your filesystem is corrupt or the manpages missing. Because
of the specific message, I'd suspect corrupt. Can you do an ls
on /usr/share/man?

And what sort of UNIX are you running here? HPUP, Solaris, AIX, what?
What versions? What happened to your system before you started noticing
these problems? If you gave more information about your system and
operating system you might get more help.

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Robert G. Melson Nothing is more terrible than
Rio Grande MicroSolutions ignorance in action.
El Paso, Texas Goethe
melsonr(at)earthlink(dot)net
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