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Article #89Re: err. at root account when typing #man [command]
From: Dieu Phan
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 06:28
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 06:28
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Ross Axe wrote: > 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 > Thanks Ross I got that.. well they are formatted and stored in cat*, all I do is to use option man -c kill to overwrite the old one. thanks
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f906c,f1b452d9126d1b6b X-Google-Attributes: gidf906c,public X-Google-Thread: f9382,f1b452d9126d1b6b X-Google-Attributes: gidf9382,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,f1b452d9126d1b6b X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-Thread: fc9ab,f1b452d9126d1b6b X-Google-Attributes: gidfc9ab,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-11 22:31:59 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.moat.net!news.primus.ca!news.primus.ca!nntp-post.primus.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Dieu Phan <dphanNOSPAM@iprimus.com.au> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031019 X-Accept-Language: en-us, 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> <C46Mb.14482$6L3.5650@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <C46Mb.14482$6L3.5650@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.50.178.71 Message-ID: <40023f5b_1@news.iprimus.com.au> Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@iprimus.com.au Lines: 58 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:28:36 +1100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 X-Complaints-To: news@primus.ca X-Trace: nntp-post.primus.ca 1073888837 203.134.67.67 (Mon, 12 Jan 2004 01:27:17 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 01:27:17 EST