On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, KOPPKA DIRK *Highlander* wrote:

> I have a little problem with the man pages, i.e. under root man finds 
> the pages I want it to, but loged in as a normal user man says it can 
> not find the desired manpage. Both (root and user) use the bash with 
> the same .bash_profile (i.e. the same manpath).
> 
> should be a stupid little problem but did not sort it out yet! 
> Can anyboudy help?
> 
> Cheers
> 
>    Dirk
>    

  Does the user have rx access to the directory with the man pages in it?
I.e. 

drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    512 Sep 26 22:17 man2/

and read access to /etc/man.conf?

Ale.