On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 12:58:01 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > Hi > > When I read 'certain' -- not all -- man pages zcat writes a small error to > stderr when opening the man page; however, the man page does actually open. > The message i get on the terminal is: > > zcat: error writing to output: Broken pipe > zcat: /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz: uncompress failed > > When closing the man page, another message is shown on stderr: > > grotty:<standard input> (<standard input>):54131:fatal error: output > error > > > Would anyone here know the possible cause and fix for this issue?
Well, what is /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz? ls -l /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz file /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz zcat /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz | head -5 xxd /usr/local/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz | head It looks like you simple have a garbled manpage, and the catpage is displayed instead. Cheers Uli _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
