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brandon
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:11 pm    Post subject: manpages are acting funky Reply with quote

No matter what manpage I search for I get the same response, this is on a basic stage3 x86 install.
After setting up Gentoo and rebooting it I forgot the syntax to a grep string, and when I tried looking at the manpage....
--
bgriffith@deadbeef bgriffith $ man grep
No recipients were specified.
bgriffith@deadbeef bgriffith $
--

I get the same thing no matter what manpage I search for or which man directory.
Has this happened to anyone else?
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Naan Yaar
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Check your PAGER and MANPAGER settings by doing:
Code:

echo $PAGER
echo $MANPAGER

One of them may be set incorrectly to "mail".
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ahhhh and it was, wonder how that happened.
Thanks.
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