From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 2 21:45:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC4237B401 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:45:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtprelay8.dc2.adelphia.net (smtprelay8.dc2.adelphia.net [64.8.50.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04FF543EAF for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:45:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@battleface.com) Received: from [192.168.0.2] ([68.64.69.188]) by smtprelay8.dc2.adelphia.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id H6J40F02.M2D for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 00:45:51 -0500 Subject: Re: 4.7: Odd 'man' behavior From: "Alex(ander Sendzimir)" To: FreeBSD "Questions (mailing " "list)" Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Digitally Inclined of Vermont Message-Id: <1038891332.230.35.camel@prometheus.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 02 Dec 2002 23:55:33 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Alex(ander Sendzimir) Digitally Inclined of Vermont To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message