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

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From: Dieu Phan
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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