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Date:      Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:33:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Bryan Ogawa <bogawa@vovida.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   4.0 botched install causes man error
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004241129430.9726-100000@newton.private.vovida.com>

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I just tried to fix a botched 4.0 RELEASE install by reinstalling the
bootloader ONLY (the bootloader didn't install).  After that, I got the
following error:

man: unable to find the file /etc/manpath.config

As well as 

_secure_path: cannot stat /etc/login.conf: Permission denied

These errors were both caused by 0700 permissions on the /etc
directory.  To fix:

	chmod go+rx /etc

I saw a few questions about this in the archive, which were leading in the
right direction, but none of them gave the full answer.

No answer needed: just fodder for the mail archives.

-- 
Bryan K. Ogawa  <bogawa@vovida.com>  http://www.vovida.com/



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