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Date:      Mon, 2 Dec 2002 21:43:58 -0800
From:      Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Subject:   Re: 4.7: Odd 'man' behavior
Message-ID:  <20021203054358.GA38342@0lsen.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021203034347.GA3438@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <20021202102736.GA37092@0lsen.net> <20021202222320.M36797-100000@radzinschi.com> <20021203034347.GA3438@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Dec 02, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> 38704 is /bin/sh, which spawned 37085, which is writing to your TTY.  Do
> you maybe have two thttpd manpages, possibly an uncompressed and a
> compressed version?  When you hit q in less, it exits, and the only way
> it could "return to the beginning of the document" if man immediately
> launches less on another version of the manpage.  Also check out "man
> -d".

Looks like there are multiple copies of some pages:

10      /usr/local/man/cat8/thttpd.8.gz
10      /usr/local/man/man8/thttpd.8.gz
24      /usr/local/man/man8/thttpd.8

So, this has to be related...

-Clint

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