From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 14 17:16:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F388E16A403 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:16:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pj@smo.de) Received: from ilk.de (mx-out14.ilk.de [194.121.104.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5263643D49 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:16:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pj@smo.de) Received: from bologna.intern.smo.de (pool58.ka.ilk.net [212.86.194.58]) by ilk.de (8.13.4/8.13.4/ilk-relay) with ESMTP id kAEHG5lB027986 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:16:05 +0100 Received: from [192.168.153.208] (herdubreid.intern.smo.de [192.168.153.208]) by bologna.intern.smo.de (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.4) with ESMTP id kAEHFRXx014635 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:15:32 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4559FAD5.2010806@smo.de> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:20:21 +0100 From: Philipp Ost User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20061022 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Problems with man and less/more X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:16:09 -0000 Hi list, I just stumbled across a oddity when I use the `man'-command piped through `less' or `more'. What I do is the following: 1. $ man $some_program This works without problems. 2. $ man $some_program | less or: $ man $some_program | more This works without problems until I type `q' to return to the terminal. Then the following message appears on the screen[tm] an I get my shell-prompt: 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 less $ For some man-pages (it seems the category doesn't matter), the message is two lines shorter: Error executing formatting or display command. system command exited with status 36096 No manual entry for X $ There's no difference whether I use `less' or `more'. My system is 6.2-PRERELEASE with sources from November 12th: $ uname -a FreeBSD herdubreid.xxx.xxx.de 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Nov 12 16:02:01 CET 2006 pj@herdubreid.xxx.xxx.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HERDUBREIDKERNEL i386 Sorry if my report is unclear in some way. If you need more information, let me know. I will do my best to provide it ;) I can also provide some ktrace output if necessary. Regards, Philipp -- www.familie-ost.info/~pj