Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I shot my self in the footagain. I'm bringing up Suse 8 with the default installion. The manuals kept referring to installing with a minimum of 256 MB or 560 MBs. But now that I had a system up, I started bring down the size to see how small it can be and still run. In all cases, I was

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Fargusson.Alan
formatting problem I shot my self in the footagain. I'm bringing up Suse 8 with the default installion. The manuals kept referring to installing with a minimum of 256 MB or 560 MBs. But now that I had a system up, I started bring down the size to see how small it can be and still run. In all

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Jeremy Warren
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Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Ferguson, Neale
You might find the (partially) cached version in /var/cache/man/cat1/rpm.1.gz

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Not there. The other mans that have been done are there. But not the corrupted one. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/27 2:03 PM You might find the (partially) cached version in /var/cache/man/cat1/rpm.1.gz

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Duerbusch
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Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Post, Mark K
strace man might give you a hint as to where it is having problems, and with which file. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Tom Duerbusch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Man formatting problem Not there. The other mans

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Try the find command. -Original Message- BTW, I had to write some code to do this, but is there a native way to do, in effect a dir rpm.* /s ?

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Post, Mark K
find . -name rpm.* Mark Post -Original Message- From: Tom Duerbusch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 3:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Man formatting problem -u didn't work. Gave a whole bunch of messages. But when I used the -u option on a manual

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread McKown, John
- From: Tom Duerbusch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 2:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Man formatting problem -u didn't work. Gave a whole bunch of messages. But when I used the -u option on a manual that was good, I got the same messages. BTW, I had to write

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Duerbusch
There we go! Using find / -name 'rpm.*', I found the file in /var/cache/man/cat8/rpm.8.gz which I copied and deleted the origional, just in case. I then tried the 'man rpm' command again, and it worked and repopulated the directory with a file that is 8,922 bytes in size instead of 20 bytes in

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 28 May 2003 03:39, you wrote: find / -name rpm.* Or, if you have locate running, try: locate 'rpm.*' No. locate '*rpm.*' Maybe better: locate '*/rpm.*' This is not a regex, and the dot is a character to be found. With locate, if you use an asterisk wherever there are characters you

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Post, Mark K
locate bin/foo or something similar, if I'm fairly sure the file is in one of the program directories. Mark Post -Original Message- From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 6:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Man formatting problem On Wed, 28 May

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Jim Sibley
How about cd (to the base directory you're insterested in) find . -print | grep rpm | less the find (dot) -print will show everthing in the tree and grep will trim it for you. And it give all the approximate matches, too. Regards, Jim Linux S/390-zSeries Support, SEEL, IBM Silicon Valley Labs