corrupted man pages
 

hey guys, some how my man pages seem to be corrupt. Here is some output when I did a simple man man, but this is the output for all man pages on my system.

man(1) man(1)

NAME
man − format and display the on�line manual pages
manpath − determine user’s search path for man pages

SYNOPSIS
man [−acdfFhkKtwW] [��path] [−m system] [−p string] [−C co
nfig_file]
[−M pathlist] [−P pager] [−S section_list] [section] name ...

DESCRIPTION
man formats and displays the onâ€�line manual pages. If you specify secâ
€�
tion, man only looks in that section of the manual. name is normally
the name of the manual page, which is typically the name of a command,
function, or file. However, if name contains a slash (/) then man
interprets it as a file specification, so that you can do man ./foo.5
or even man /cd/foo/bar.1.gz.

See below for a description of where man looks for the manual page
files.

OPTIONS
−C config_file
Specify the configuration file to use; the default is
/usr//etc/man.config. (See man.conf(5).)

−M path
Specify the list of directories to search for man pages. Sepa�
rate the directories with colons. An empty list is the same as
not specifying −M at all. See SEARCH PATH FOR MANUAL PAGES.

−P pager
Specify which pager to use. This option overrides the MANPAGER
environment variable, which in turn overrides the PAGER vari�
able. By default, man uses /usr/bin/less �isr.

−S section_list
List is a colon separated list of manual sections to search.
This option overrides the MANSECT environment variable.

−a By default, man will exit after displaying the first manual page
it finds. Using this option forces man to display all the man�
ual pages that match name, not just the first.



Sorry the text was so long. This is a fresh install of RH 8.0. The weirdest part is, it's only when you telnet/ssh into it. If I sit locally to the machine. Output is fine. I have tried using different telnet/ssh clients, but all output is the same.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

I'm not sure how to fix it, but I can tell you that their not corrupted if it works when your not telneting to it.
It's probably something to do with telnet, but I use OpenSSH so I couldn't help ya there.

same thing using ssh, thx n-e-way

have you only tried telneting from one computer?

no, I have tried multiple computers, and even had friends from outside do it. Same result. Really weird huh?

Howdy Granny,

I had the same problem, Markus helped me out :)

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...422#post179501

Slick.

sweet, thanks willy, I will give it a shot. Unfortunately won't have a chance to try it until this weekend, but ty