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Article #1626oddity with man pages in 3.0
From: Dick Silbar
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:39
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:39
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I am responsible for two NeXTs in our group, my cube and the secretary's TurboStation. Yesterday I upgraded both to 3.0 and the following peculiar situation has arisen with respect to man pages, e.g., "man ls". Actually, it arose before yesterday, when I discovered that I no longer could find man pages entries already last week. That is because, to save disk space on our two machines, we NFS-mount the NextLibrary/- Documentation directory on both machines from another NeXTstation down the hall in T-8, another group. I soon learned that T-8 had already upgraded to 3.0 last week. Since the man pages were moved around some between 2.x and 3.0, it was no surprise the entries could not be found. But I expected this problem to go away when I did _our_ upgrades. Not quite the case. In fact, if I remember correctly, neither my machine nor Rachel's could find the man pages entries as of yesterday afternoon, after the upgrades were complete. The mystery compounds: later that evening, when signed on to my machine remotely (from home), I tried (without much hope) once again a "man ls". To my surprise, it worked (and it still does)! Oh ho!, I said, Paul (the T-8 system administrator) must have fixed something earlier this evening. Good!, but maybe I'll just check that "man" also works on Rachel's machine? That's where the real mystery comes in -- it DOESN'T! Anybody have any clues as to what's going here? (For the record, I've rebooted everything a couple times; the mounts look good; the man pages can be read in their nroff and catman forms directly from the NFS- mounted directory.) Dick Silbar
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!lanl!mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov!silbar From: silbar@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov (Dick Silbar) Subject: oddity with man pages in 3.0 Message-ID: <29SEP199220391352@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov> News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov Organization: LAMPF Data Analysis Center, Los Alamos, New Mexico Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:39:00 GMT Lines: 32