Re: man problem
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:21:24PM +0200, thomas wrote: 'apt-get install less' to get a better pager, and your problems should go away. If that doesn't work, 'update-alternatives --config pager' to change what /usr/bin/pager points to. you were right. thx. thomas G'day Thomas, Before you settle on less try most it's got some very nice syntax highlighting and a better search engine then less Cheers Joel
man problem
hi, i have switched to debian a week ago and was using SuSE for over a year now. debian is clearly superior (if you know what you're doing). and i already love apt-get. but i have a small problem: man doesnt let me use PageUp and PageDown to scroll the man-page. i can use space to scroll one page down, but i cant scroll up. is there a way to teach man PageUp and PageDown? it's not a big problem but i was already used to that and i catched myself like 5 times pressinf PageDown out of frustration although i knew it doesnt work. thx, thomas
Re: man problem
thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have switched to debian a week ago and was using SuSE for over a year now. debian is clearly superior (if you know what you're doing). and i already love apt-get. but i have a small problem: man doesnt let me use PageUp and PageDown to scroll the man-page. i can use space to scroll one page down, but i cant scroll up. is there a way to teach man PageUp and PageDown? it's not a big problem but i was already used to that and i catched myself like 5 times pressinf PageDown out of frustration although i knew it doesnt work. Hi, man just fires off a pager, so you'll need to check that. If you have $PAGER set, it will use that, otherwise it'll use /usr/bin/pager (try 'readlink -f /usr/bin/pager' to see what that is). My guess is that you don't have $PAGER set and haven't installed 'less', so you're getting the basic pager 'more'. 'more' can't scroll backwards in pipes, hence the problem. 'apt-get install less' to get a better pager, and your problems should go away. If that doesn't work, 'update-alternatives --config pager' to change what /usr/bin/pager points to. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: man problem
'apt-get install less' to get a better pager, and your problems should go away. If that doesn't work, 'update-alternatives --config pager' to change what /usr/bin/pager points to. you were right. thx. thomas
man problem
When I run man on certain topics, it will now just twiddle its thumbs until I Ctrl-C it, at which point it says can't remove /tmp/name of a temp file: No such file or directory. Anything I can do about this? - Bill
Re: man problem (NEVER MIND)
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, William R Pentney wrote: Never mind, it's working - it just took a long time. I feel sufficiently stupid now. :-) When I run man on certain topics, it will now just twiddle its thumbs until I Ctrl-C it, at which point it says can't remove /tmp/name of a temp file: No such file or directory. Anything I can do about this? - Bill
man problem
My problem with man is as follows: say I type man something, I get the following error: man: can't set effective uid: Operation not permitted Surely this isn't too bad, eh? Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
Re: man problem
In a message dated 12/8/98 12:59:49 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My problem with man is as follows: say I type man something, I get the following error: man: can't set effective uid: Operation not permitted Surely this isn't too bad, eh? Nope, not too bad at all, you just need to install the man-db (and maybe manpages) packages. Also, get the info package. My question - why doesn't that come with the base install? You'd think that would be a standard feature -Jay
Re: [SOLVED] man problem, bo
Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Somehow both permissions and ownership got changed on /tmp. Oops! That sometimes happens if I unpack tar files as root in /tmp. If there is a . file in the archive tar will set the ownership and permissions of the /tmp directory the same as this file. Torsten -- !07/11 PDP a ni deppart m'I !pleH Fortune Cookie PGP Public key available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [SOLVED] man problem, bo
Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Somehow both permissions and ownership got changed on /tmp. Oops! me too - after upgrading from 1.3.1 to unstable. Have you upgraded too?? Do you know which package!? I've updated a whole bunch of packages 8-( Bye Christian -- Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1! Mehr unter http://www.de.debian.org/ pgp2RmcR7FVZw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [SOLVED] man problem, bo
Christian Leutloff wrote: Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Somehow both permissions and ownership got changed on /tmp. Oops! me too - after upgrading from 1.3.1 to unstable. Have you upgraded too?? Do you know which package!? I've updated a whole bunch of packages 8-( With this line you can find the offending package: $ for j in `find path -name '*.deb'` ;do echo $j; dpkg -c $j | grep '/tmp/$'; done But I don't think that you'll find one. In my experience this happens when untarring directly under /tmp a tarball containing ./ Better make a new dir under /tmp and untar inside it. When happens use chmod 1777 /tmp to recreate the sticky bit. Fabrizio -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] | Pluto Leader - Debian Developer Happy Debian 1.3.1 User - vi-holic | 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 86 40 7B 1A 69 A1 66 EC FB D2 5E -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
man problem, bo
I've done a recent simple installation of a subset of bo. root can access man just fine. If a normal user issues a man command, such as 'man man' the following output appears: man: can't create a temporary filename: No such file or directory Must be a permissions problem, but where? Thanks. Pann -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[SOLVED] man problem, bo
Somehow both permissions and ownership got changed on /tmp. Oops! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
