From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 16 11:26:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24833 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:08:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24695 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:07:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA26169; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:07:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:07:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: allen campbell cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <199803152357.QAA01744@const.> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, allen campbell wrote: > I have installed X11R6 for use with a PC X server via xdmcp. I > have noticed a subtle difference in behaviour between my xdm launched > xterms and telnet sessions. What is it about how I am using xdm > that makes these error messages appear? > > *** Output from an xterm launched in an xdm session. > zcat: stdout: Broken pipe > *** Output from a terminal emulator via telnet (or xterm launched > via rexec.) > > const> man xterm > > I understand the mechanics of pipes and the meaning of the error > messages. The error output appears to be legitimate. So why does > the same output not appear in the telnet session? I suspect that > it has to do with the order that the processes in the pipe are > shutdown. My guess would have to do with how your pager queues up the output from the zcat. Are you using the same pager in both environments? The error is harmless, though -- you're reading previously formatted manpages, and they're just catted out from the .gz archives in /usr/share/man/catX/Y.gz. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message