Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:44:27 -0800 (AKDT) From: un_x <un_x@anchorage.net> To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: manpages Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970423153806.4080B-100000@iceberg> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970424103600.10264T-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>
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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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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