Re: make and man

1998-03-26 Thread fpolacco
On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 09:17:17PM +, The Omnipotent Heretic wrote: I also have problems accessing man pages...I get the same message: command not found. What am I missing? install package man-db fab -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] | LĂ­der Minimo

Re: broken manpages-dev

1998-03-06 Thread fpolacco
On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 12:15:16AM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: nr# man bogus Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait... Here I CTRL-C man: can't remove /tmp/zman21458aaa: Bad file descriptor It's a problem with your restrictive umask and the recent man-db. I'll upload a

Re: A need to manualy run /etc/cron.weekly/man-db

1998-02-27 Thread fpolacco
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 11:02:08PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And after I turned on the power, rebooted and logged again, I got a segmentation fault whenever I tried to man -w something. Only after manualy running the script the man -w something worked. Has someone else

Re: man-db installation problem ...

1998-02-26 Thread fpolacco
On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 07:34:54PM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 09:17:31PM -0500, Nebu John Mathai wrote: Checking for languages ... de_DECan't locate Getopt/Long.pm in @INC at /usr/sbin/chmanconfig line 38. You need to have perl installed. A bug has already been

Re: Broken Man pages after uprade!

1998-02-26 Thread fpolacco
On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 02:07:21PM -0500, Scott Ellis wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Timothy M. Hospedales wrote: I just installed the man-db and manpages packges from hamm. (Before I was using the old ones from Bo). Now, whenever I try to man anything, it says: sh: /usr/bin/pager: No such

Re: MANPATH environment variable

1998-02-23 Thread fpolacco
On Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 09:42:59AM -0500, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/qt/bin /usr/local/qt/man to /etc/manpath.config is a better solution. Correct. To the list: does anyone know if manpath actually examines anything but the path? The man page claims that

Re: Man does not display tables

1998-02-23 Thread fpolacco
On Wed, Feb 18, 1998 at 11:34:22AM +0100, Jens Ritter wrote: Niccolo Rigacci [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found that the man program don't understand some tags. For example in the /usr/man/man4/console_codes.4.gz file I see the following that is supposed to be a table: This is not

Re: /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS?

1998-02-06 Thread fpolacco
On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 05:33:06PM -0500, John Kloss wrote: ... and I can say this about /dev/cua* It is NOT obsolete. Believe me, they are obsolete, and aren't any more installed. The only way that I can connect to my modem (which is a pcmcia card) is through /dev/cua1. I tried many

Re: man segmentation fault

1998-02-03 Thread fpolacco
On Mon, Feb 02, 1998 at 12:15:02AM +0100, Jens Ritter wrote: Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello - I am getting a segmentation fault whe i invoke man from the command line. What are the possible causes of this error, please? This one reached the Faq-O-Matic. I said there:

Re: PS/2 mouse setup; /dev/mouse?

1998-01-19 Thread fpolacco
On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 01:21:34AM +0100, Pancho Horrillo wrote: I have read somewhere that it's not adviseable the use of symlinks to devices such as modems or mouse ports, due locking conflicts. If a process uses and locks /dev/ttyS0, and you have a symlink modem-ttyS0 and try to use

Re: divide the list in beginners and advanced

1998-01-15 Thread fpolacco
On 15 Jan, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: When is version 2 coming out will not be announced in advance, I'm afraid. At one point in time it will have been released and then everybody will know about it. well, it is true, but not _really_ 100% exact. From 4 to 6 weeks before 2.0 release, unstable

Re: Debian Pgp question...

1998-01-15 Thread fpolacco
On 13 Jan, Scott Ellis wrote: Copy your secret and public key files to your linux machine And when you do this copy, be really carefull with what you do; it would be very easy to leave around copies of the secret key, thus compromizing the key. As a thumb's rule, re-format all the floppy

Re: off-topic: Good bug-tracking package?

1998-01-12 Thread fpolacco
On 11 Jan, Obi wrote: Hi all, does anyone know of a good bug-tracking software? Yes, I remember having seen Ian Jackson announce on packaging his DBTS (Debian Bug Tracking System) which is the one debian use at bugs.debian.org, but at this moment I'm not able to find it on the ftp site.

Re: patch for man command

1998-01-11 Thread fpolacco
On 10 Jan, Maurizio Marini wrote: Hi, i've installed debian 1.3 by cd availeble on various zines. It's a problem entered because of the last minute upgrade before burning the PLUTO CD (which has been copied by some magazines). That version of man-db has been modifyed to work with the new pager