Several strange/tiny man-pages on SUSE 9.1...
Hi, On my SUSE 9.1 system there are plenty of smaller man-files laying in various subfolders of /usr/share/man/. Midnight Commander doesn't display them, just dies with an error, but from command-line with "man x whatever" all of these files look OK! What they are? I mean in which format and why they are so small? Why mc could have serious problem with them?
<standard input>:1: can't open `man3p/select.3p': No such file or directory lines ?-?/? (END)
(At least select.3p.gz wus there...) Few further examples: --------------------------------------------------------> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47 Apr 3 2004 _Exit.3p.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47 Apr 3 2004 _exit.3p.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53 Apr 3 2004 _longjmp.3p.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50 Apr 3 2004 FD_CLR.3p.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 Apr 3 2004 FD_ISSET.3p.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50 Apr 3 2004 FD_SET.3p.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51 Apr 3 2004 FD_ZERO.3p.gz Thanks, Pelibali
On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 00:25 +0200, pelibali wrote:
Hi,
On my SUSE 9.1 system there are plenty of smaller man-files laying in various subfolders of /usr/share/man/. Midnight Commander doesn't display them, just dies with an error, but from command-line with "man x whatever" all of these files look OK! What they are? I mean in which format and why they are so small? Why mc could have serious problem with them?
These are of course the man pages. They are in troff format and gziped to save space. I tried opening a few and you may have a problem if the file is a link to another man page. Another such man page is /usr/share/man/man1/lastb.1.gz If you look at the contents of the file with less you will find it contains: .so man1/last.1 which links it to last.1. I would guess that MC cannot handle that kind of link but man understands it. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
Hi, On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:32:43 -0400 Ken Schneider <.> wrote: <...>
These are of course the man pages. They are in troff format and gziped to save space. I tried opening a few and you may have a problem if the file is a link to another man page. Another such man page is /usr/share/man/man1/lastb.1.gz If you look at the contents of the file with less you will find it contains: .so man1/last.1 which links it to last.1. I would guess that MC cannot handle that kind of link but man understands it.
Thanks for your response! There is still something I didn't get concerning a particular man page. On my 9.1 there is a file sitting in a strange folder: balazs@khazad-dum:~> dir /usr/share/man/cat8 total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3052 2005-02-18 18:43 saslauthd.8.gz balazs@khazad-dum:~> rpm -qf /usr/share/man/cat8/saslauthd.8.gz cyrus-sasl-2.1.18-33.8 I remember seeing such temp-folders while rebuilding packages, but why this above rpm has that page in such a fancy subfolder and why not simply in ./man8 ? In fact calling "man 8 saslauthd.8.gz" works well, so my system at least _does find_ that file. Is it just (probably) an accident, or supposed be like that? Thanks, Pelibali
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