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Article #87Re: err. at root account when typing #man [command]
From: Ross Axe
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 06:30
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f906c,f1b452d9126d1b6b X-Google-Attributes: gidf906c,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,f1b452d9126d1b6b X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-Thread: f9382,f1b452d9126d1b6b X-Google-Attributes: gidf9382,public X-Google-Thread: fc9ab,f1b452d9126d1b6b X-Google-Attributes: gidfc9ab,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-10 22:30:59 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!proxad.net!proxad.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Ross Axe <ross.axe@blueyonder.co.uk> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.comp.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux Subject: Re: err. at root account when typing #man [command] References: <pan.2004.01.11.02.14.21.145966@dph.slackers.org> In-Reply-To: <pan.2004.01.11.02.14.21.145966@dph.slackers.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 51 Message-ID: <C46Mb.14482$6L3.5650@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 06:30:57 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.36.120.240 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk X-Trace: news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk 1073802658 82.36.120.240 (Sun, 11 Jan 2004 06:30:58 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 06:30:58 GMT Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder)