Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:43:47 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> Cc: Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.7: Odd 'man' behavior Message-ID: <20021203034347.GA3438@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20021202222320.M36797-100000@radzinschi.com> References: <20021202102736.GA37092@0lsen.net> <20021202222320.M36797-100000@radzinschi.com>
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In the last episode (Dec 02), Marco Radzinschi said: > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Clint Olsen wrote: > > > It's possible this is cockpit fog, but I didn't notice this until I > > upgraded to 4.7. Certain manpages are being rendered in such a way that > > when I type 'q' to exit my PAGER (less), the pager returns to the beginning > > of the document as if it doesn't exit. But what appears to be happening is > > that I'm getting multiple streams of output to the TTY: > > > > clint 37083 0.0 0.6 1116 588 p1 S+ 2:24AM 0:00.03 man thttpd > > clint 37084 0.0 0.3 628 308 p1 S+ 2:24AM 0:00.00 sh -c /usr/bin/zcat /usr/local/man/cat8/thttpd.8.gz | less > > clint 37085 0.0 0.2 604 216 p1 S+ 2:24AM 0:00.01 /usr/bin/zcat /usr/local/man/cat8/thttpd.8.gz > > > > So, it appears that both 37084 and 37085 are writing to my TTY, which is > > why it looks like it doesn't exit... 38704 is /bin/sh, which spawned 37085, which is writing to your TTY. Do you maybe have two thttpd manpages, possibly an uncompressed and a compressed version? When you hit q in less, it exits, and the only way it could "return to the beginning of the document" if man immediately launches less on another version of the manpage. Also check out "man -d". -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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