AIX man pages fail

[sjcrane]

I have two AIX 5.3 systems, one 5300-04 and one 5300-05. On one the man pages work fine. On the second when I type man ls it pauses for a while and then returns to the prompt.

I have checked files in:

/usr/bin/man
/usr/share/man/*
/usr/local/man/*

Seem to be the same and nroff works on both.

Please help???????

 

[RodKnowlton]

You might want to take a look at the man page for [tt]catman[/tt]. (no, it's not one of Batman's enemies )

- Rod


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[sjcrane]

That is the problem,

dcs1:root/)>man ctaman
Manual entry for ctaman not found or not installed.
dcs1:root/)>man catman
dcs1:root/)>

I can't run the man command to anything. It is like the data files are missing or corrupt but I already copied all over from a good system.

Anything else, I am reviewing the catman pages on another box

 

[RodKnowlton]

Sorry, I meant for you to read about catman on the machine that has working man pages, and see if you could use the command to fix the one that doesn't.

- Rod


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[sjcrane]

Problem seems to be that it cannot find the standard UNIX command manuals:

dcs1:root/mnt1/aix/530/base)>man ls
dcs1:root/mnt1/aix/530/base)>

but if I use a file from /usr/share/man/cat1 it works:

dcs1:root/usr/share/man/cat1)>ls
agsysdb.1 emcpupgrade.1 i4cfg.1 lb_admin.1 powermt.1 sftp.1 utility.1
dping.1 extract.1 i4gdb.1 lb_find.1 powerprotect.1 ssh-add.1 uuid_gen.1
drm_admin.1 fortran i4glbcd.1 llbd.1 scopeux.1 ssh-agent.1 xlf
dsh.1 glance.1 i4lct.1 mgmtsvr.1 scp.1 ssh-keygen.1 xlf90
dshbak.1 glbd.1 i4llmd.1 midaemon.1 sdlcomp.1 ssh-keyscan.1 xlf95
dsilog.1 gpm.1 i4lmd.1 mwa.1 sdlexpt.1 ssh.1
emcpminor.1 i4act.1 i4target.1 ovtrap.1 sdlgendata.1 stcode.1
emcpreg.1 i4blt.1 i4tv.1 perfstat.1 sdlutil.1 ttd.1
dcs1:root/usr/share/man/cat1)>man mwa

MWA(1) (11 October 2001) MWA(1)

NAME
mwa - Performance tool script for starting and stopping data
collection and alarms

SYNOPSIS
mwa [action] [subsystem] [parms] on HP-UX 9.x, HP-UX 10.x,
HP-UX 11.x, IBM AIX and NCR systems.

mwa [-dce|-ncs] [action] [subsystem] [parms] on SINIX, Sun
Solaris and DEC systems.

DESCRIPTION
mwa is a script that is used to start, stop, and re-
initialize MeasureWare Agent processes. On SINIX, Sun
Solaris and DEC systems, depending on which communication
protocol is installed and running, you can choose a protocol
selector (ncs or dce).

ACTION
-? List all mwa options. If your shell
interprets ? as a wildcard character, use an
invalid option such as -xxx instead of -?.

start Start all or part of MeasureWare Agent.

 

[RodKnowlton]

AIX renders many of its man pages from HTML files that are used by the web based documentation engine. I don't have a 5.3 box handy, but on my 5.2 the ls command's page is [tt]/usr/share/man/info/en_US/a_doc_lib/cmds/aixcmds3/ls.htm[/tt]

Try

MANPATH=/usr/share/man man ls

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[sjcrane]

I figured it out!!

link missing:

A link was missing from (/usr/share/man/info/en_US/a_doc_lib) which could of happened during migration:

Mv /usr/share/man/info/en_US/a_doc_lib/cmds cmds.old

ln -s /opt/ibm_help/eclipse/plugins/com.ibm.aix.doc_5.3.0/cmds cmds


=============
now
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dcs1:root/usr/share/man/info/en_US/a_doc_lib)>man ls

Commands Reference, Volume 3, i - m

ls Command

Purpose

Displays the contents of a directory.

Syntax

To Display Contents of Directory or Name of File

ls [ -1 ] [ -A ] [ -C ] [ -F ] [-H | -L ] [ -N ] [ -R ] [ -X] [ -a ] [ -b ] [ -c ] [ -d ] [ -e ]
[ -f ] [ -g ] [ -i ] [ -l ] [ -m ] [ -n ] [ -o ] [ -p ] [ -q ] [ -r ] [ -s ] [ -t ] [ -u ] [ -U ]
[ -x ] [ File ... ]

 

[sjcrane]

I figured it out!! But thanks for your help!!!

link missing:

A link was missing from (/usr/share/man/info/en_US/a_doc_lib) which could of happened during migration:

Mv /usr/share/man/info/en_US/a_doc_lib/cmds cmds.old

ln -s /opt/ibm_help/eclipse/plugins/com.ibm.aix.doc_5.3.0/cmds cmds


=============
now
=============

dcs1:root/usr/share/man/info/en_US/a_doc_lib)>man ls

Commands Reference, Volume 3, i - m

ls Command

Purpose

Displays the contents of a directory.

Syntax

To Display Contents of Directory or Name of File

ls [ -1 ] [ -A ] [ -C ] [ -F ] [-H | -L ] [ -N ] [ -R ] [ -X] [ -a ] [ -b ] [ -c ] [ -d ] [ -e ]
[ -f ] [ -g ] [ -i ] [ -l ] [ -m ] [ -n ] [ -o ] [ -p ] [ -q ] [ -r ] [ -s ] [ -t ] [ -u ] [ -U ]
[ -x ] [ File ... ]