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1 total messages Started by Dick Silbar Wed, 30 Sep 1992 02:39
oddity with man pages in 3.0
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Author: Dick Silbar
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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