Problem reading macports man pages while SSH'd in

Question

For some reason when a user SSH's in to one of our systems, they cannot read macports installed man pages. If I'm logged in on directly on the server - meaning I'm at the console - I can read the ports man pages, but if I SSH in from remote system, I can't.
For example, locally on the server both man port and man doxygen produce man pages. Whille SSH'd in, those commands return: No manual entry for [command issued]
Is this potentially a pathing issue where, for example, local (console) bash pathing gets set, but doesn't get passed when a user comes in via SSH?
Honestly, yesterday we upgraded to 10.7.4. so I can't say for sure whether this is a 'new' problem or a known problem.
Thanks much in advance - this is driving us nuts.

Answer 1

In what way does that other process expect its input?
My guess was
that it expected a newline (\n) after every input
field. The spawned application is not written by me but it puts the string to enter the username and waits for username, then password and does some validation check and asks again for directpath. Yes the it expects newline after every input.
// output in shell
D:\manish\martusproj>c:\Martus\bin\java.exe Xbootclasspath/p:c:\Martus\lib\ext\
bc-jce.jar -cp c:\Martus\martus.jar org.martus.client.tools.ImportXmlBulletins -
-import-directory=.\ --account-directory=c:\Martus
Martus Bulletin XML Importer
Enter User Name:mregmi
Enter Password:hello
Enter Martus folder name where you want these bulletins to be stored:mart
Importing:Bulletin #1
Importing:Bulletin #2
Finished! 2 bulletins imported into Martus.
Your process has
to write exactly what that other process expects.
Of course you can close the writer when you're done.
kind regards,
Jos
ps. what happens if you change that 'flush' to
'close' in my example?flush hangs.
close works but the spawned app says invalid input.
// output
Martus Bulletin XML Importer
java.lang.NullPointerException
     at org.martus.client.tools.ImportXmlBulletins.createSecurityObject(Unknown Source)
     at org.martus.client.tools.ImportXmlBulletins.main(Unknown Source)
Exception in thread "main"
Enter User Name:Enter Password:
xml2martus Error code 1
Convertion Complete.....
the same command works from cmd.
regards
Manish