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?
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'man' command fails with lseek error
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