Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:28:03 -0500 (EST) From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> To: Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.7: Odd 'man' behavior Message-ID: <20021202222320.M36797-100000@radzinschi.com> In-Reply-To: <20021202102736.GA37092@0lsen.net>
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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
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