In the last episode (Dec 02), Marco Radzinschi said:
> 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...
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".
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