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When I try to run man page on my Red Hat as a normal user I get "No manual entry for zip" If I change to root run: "man zip" and then I get the man page and afterwards I see the same man page as I did with root. Is there some kind of man page generation process taking place when I run it for the first time with root?

I have checked the /usr/share/man/man1/ there seem to be all the man pages for tools I usually use cp, ls, zip etc. I have also set $MANPATH envvar, but still no help.

Am I doing something wrong or the configuration on Red Hats differs from that of other Linux distros?

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My guess is that your MANPATH is set incorrectly.

To test this, first try unsetting it:

$ unset MANPATH
$ man zip

If my guess is right, then you will man will use its default path and find the man page.

Also try comparing the output of echo $MANPATH as normal user vs root user.

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The solution to this issue is to check whether then /usr/share/man/ permissions are correctly set. In my case the execute flag on all

/usr/share/man/

folders was removed, except for root.

$ ls -l /usr/share/man/ # check if it has the x flag set for others

if x flag is not set, set it

$ chmod o+x /usr/share/man/*

of course you also want check if $MANPATH is correctly set as mention in an earlier answer.

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