Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 18:43:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: un_x <un_x@anchorage.net> Cc: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>, freebsd-hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: manpages Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970423184219.3244A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970423155711.4080D-100000@iceberg>
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On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, un_x wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> > > > /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".
> >
> > What do you get if you do a 'file xxx.1.gz'
> > If you rm xxx.1.gz and do 'man 1 xxx'
>
> file xxx.1.gz - gives "file.1.gz: data"
> rm-ing catpages doesn't change anything.
> zcat still fails ...
If it looks like "data" to file, it's probably corrupted. Here's how it
should look:
narcissus:{/home/ben}% file /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz: gzip compressed data - deflate method ,
original file name , last modified: Wed Feb 19 14:41:50 1997 os: Unix
Try reinstalling the man distribution.
Ben
"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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