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Date:      02 Dec 2002 23:55:33 -0500
From:      "Alex(ander Sendzimir)" <lists@battleface.com>
To:        FreeBSD "Questions (mailing  " "list)" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 4.7: Odd 'man' behavior
Message-ID:  <1038891332.230.35.camel@prometheus.localdomain>

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I experience the same symptoms, so I'll third this topic. I've noticed
that it appears to happen only with man pages that belong to the system.
When I man a non-system manpage, it works as expected whether running
with X or without. (I was wondering if it might be X related. Just a
thought. Apparently not.)


Alex



On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:28, Marco Radzinschi wrote: 
> 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...
> >
> > -Clint
> 
> I can second this strange behavior, but since it only happens on my
> firewall machine, which I rarely use interactively, I never bothered to
> diagnose it.
> 
> As such, the only insight that I can offer is that it happens on only one
> of my 4.7-STABLE machines.
> 
> Marco Radzinschi
> E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com
> 
> Mon Dec  2 22:23:20 EST 2002
> 
> 
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