I can't use command "man"

[Huan Deng]

Rick Stevens wrote:

　　

>Huan Deng wrote:
>> Rick Stevens wrote: 
>> 
>> 
>>>Make sure you have an /etc/man.config file and that it is readable to
>>>all users (minimum of 644 or "-rw-r--r--").  An "ls -l /etc/man.config"
>>>should result in something like:
>>>
>>>[rick at prophead rick]$ ls -l /etc/man*
>>>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4568 Oct 13  2003 /etc/man.config
>>>
>>>You may want to reinstall the "man" RPM.
>>>
>> 
>>   Thanks a lot. I reinstall "man" rpm , and all users can use command "man".
>>   But there is still a little problem . I input "man ls" , a message pops up:
>>  
>>       gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe 
>>    
>>       gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe 
>>       grotty: <standard input>:2585:fatal error: output error
>> 
>>   Usually the message is ignored by the system , and the command runs well.
>>   I want to know if the message doesnt matter and how to correct it. 
>
>This was 8.0, right?  There is a glitch in the man scripts that causes
>that message.  It's not fatal and you can safely ignore it.  I never
>did figure out exactly what it was, but it has to do with man passing
>an extra space character to the gunzip command line before displaying
>the text.
>
>As I said, you can ignore it.
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  ok,thank you very much .You are so kind :)




			


				 
               Huan Deng
               hdeng at microscience.com.cn
					2004-05-08 
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