I experience the same symptoms, so I'll third this topic. I've noticed that it appears to happen only with man pages that belong to the system. When I man a non-system manpage, it works as expected whether running with X or without. (I was wondering if it might be X related. Just a thought. Apparently not.)
Alex On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:28, Marco Radzinschi wrote: > 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Mon Dec 2 22:23:20 EST 2002 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Alex(ander Sendzimir) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Digitally Inclined of Vermont To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
