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Re: err. at root account when typing #man [command]

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From: Ross Axe
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 06:30
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Dieu Phan wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> My slackBox has an err. on root account as following:
> If I am typing for eg.
> '#man kill' then its output exposed as:
> KILL(1)             Linux Programmer�<80><99>s Manual             KILL(1)
> 
> NAME
>        kill �<88><92> terminate a process
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        kill [ �<88><92�<88><92>s signal | �<88><92�<88><92>p ] [ �<88><92�<88>
> <92>a ] [ �<88><92�<88><92>�<88><92�<88><92> ] pid ...
>        kill �<80><90�<80><90>l [ signal ]
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>        The  command kill sends the specified signal to the speci­
>        fied process or process group.  If no signal is specified,
>        the  TERM  signal is sent.  The TERM signal will kill pro­
>        cesses which do not catch this  signal.   For  other  pro­
>        cesses,  it  may  be necessary to use the KILL (9) signal,
>        since this signal cannot be caught.
> 
>        Most modern shells have a builtin kill  function,  with  a
>        usage  rather  similar  to  that  of the command described
>        here. The �<80><98>�<80><90>a�<80><99> and �<80><98>�<80><90>p�<80><99> o
> ptions, and  the  possibility  to
>        specify pids by command name is a local extension.
> lines 1-23 
> etc...
> //END
> Notes:
> 1. The err. only happens on root account
> 2. it occurs with some commands only such as 'kill', 'pppd' and so on
> Almost of commands are appearing normal
> 3. normal users do not have err. like that
> 4. My locale: LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1. However, b4 i changed locale to
> en_AU.UTF-8 default of LANG=C. After I switched to UTF-8 and back to
> LANG=C, problem happens. Even tho' I changed back to default, or
> en_US.ISO8859-1.
> has Anyone experienced w/ this kind of err. pls help me. I am very
> appreciated.
> kind regards
> 

HINT: Only root has access to /var/man/cat*/

HTH

Ross
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