From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 03:19:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE254106564A for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:19:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E9B88FC0A for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:19:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([10.128.143.51]) by hrndva-qmta01.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20101031030959840.UJQV7732@hrndva-qmta01.mail.rr.com> for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:09:59 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=6ptpMFIBtxRk0xdOb6IhJTbTLVRlKjWFes7R4SsWCrA= c=1 sm=0 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=i+/JZ7yNYkEB9O74GrsxMg==:17 a=s1O25tkdAAAA:8 a=ePsyhcdrAAAA:8 a=TWSgf9a6mDExTcUmp0MA:9 a=PA7YLJtTeiGTS7UM84QA:7 a=SXyPrQB6FXamylK_lzXguHlvstwA:4 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=OyOq_G8mXAEA:10 a=i+/JZ7yNYkEB9O74GrsxMg==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 67.49.188.22 Received: from [67.49.188.22] ([67.49.188.22:60831] helo=localhost.hawaii.res.rr.com) by hrndva-oedge01.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id 91/93-26142-9CDDCCC4; Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:08:58 +0000 Received: from holstein.holy.cow (parv [127.0.0.2]) by localhost.hawaii.res.rr.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE8465CA9; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:13:54 -1000 (HST) Received: (from parv@localhost) by holstein.holy.cow (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o9V3Dr86002395; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:13:53 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from parv@pair.com) X-Authentication-Warning: holstein.holy.cow: parv set sender to parv@pair.com using -f Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:13:53 -1000 From: parv@pair.com To: Warren Block Message-ID: <20101031031353.GA2241@holstein.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: parv@pair.com, Warren Block , Chip Camden , questions@freebsd.org References: <20101029185853.0631917f.freebsd@edvax.de> <20101029184958.GE2439@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: Chip Camden , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man(1) output error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:19:28 -0000 in message , wrote Warren Block thusly... > > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Warren Block wrote: > > > On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Chip Camden wrote: > > > >>> % man csh | less +/rehash > >>> > >>> rehash Causes the internal hash table of the contents of the > >>> directo- > >>> ries in the path variable to be recomputed. This is > >>> needed if > >>> [...] > >>> Error executing formatting or display command. > >>> system command exited with status 36096 > >>> Error executing formatting or display command. > >>> system command exited with status 36096 > >>> No manual entry for csh ... > >> I can confirm that the very latest 8.1-STABLE (csup and build > >> this morning) reproduces the problem. uname -a: > >> > >> FreeBSD libertas.local.camdensoftware.com 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE > >> #85: Fri Oct 29 10:27:19 PDT 2010 > >> sterling@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LIBERTAS > >> amd64 > > > > This seems to be a problem with the csh man page. Other pages > > work fine, like 'man hosts | less +/named' or 'man devfs | less > > +/ruleset'. > > Actually, it appears to be a problem with long manual pages, > including csh, bash, or perlfunc. I tried with "man perlfunc | less '+/y'" (also repeated the above with csh) which did not result in any error messages in zsh 4 on FreeBSD 8-STABLE (c. Sep 9 2010). - parv --