From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 23 17:47:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA03850 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 17:47:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg.anchorage.net. (root@iceberg.anchorage.net [207.14.72.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA03845 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 17:47:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iceberg (iceberg [207.14.72.150]) by iceberg.anchorage.net. (8.6.11/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA04118; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:44:27 -0800 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:44:27 -0800 (AKDT) From: un_x X-Sender: un_x@iceberg To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" cc: freebsd-hackers Subject: Re: manpages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, un_x wrote: > > can anyone tell me how i might get manpages to work? > > /usr/share/man/cat* should be owned by man.bin, mode 755 > /usr/bin/man should be owned by man.bin, mode 4555 (-r-sr-xr-x) yes - that is correct, my problem is that something is translating my manpages into non-gzip catpages. i can go in as root and cannot gzip -d any catpages. though they end in .gz and look ok. when executing a man command, zcat fails trying to unzip the cat page "not in gzip format". this is a fresh install of 2.2.1, for the 2nd time. i still have this problem. what's funny, is some pages that worked the 1st time, are not working now! only a VERY few. < 2%. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sleep: a sign a caffeine deprivation ... http://www.anchorage.net/~un_x ------------------------------------------------------------------------------