On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 04:55, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 01:05:56PM +1000, Adam Bogacki wrote: > > I still don't understand why Gnome terminal and 'man' pages > > are not working. Trying "man procmail" as root gives me > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > sh: line 1: /usr/bin/pager: No such file or directory > > sh: line 1: exec: /usr/bin/pager: cannot execute: : No such file or > > directory > > man: command exited with status 32256: /bin/gzip -dc > > /var/cache/man/procmail.1.gz | exec /usr/bin/pager -s > > Something's deleted your /usr/bin/pager. Normally it's a symlink to > /etc/alternatives/pager, which is a symlink to whatever the preferred > pager on your machine is. Run 'update-alternatives --config pager' to > restore it. > > > What is "status 32256" ? > > It happens to indicate that the program 'man' was trying to run exited > with return code 126 and didn't receive any fatal signal, but the exact > number is not important here. > > -- > Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >
It's been missing on my system, too, since about when man-db last moved into testing (not saying it was man-db that did this, just that the time was the same.) That said, I just went with the older solution of defining the PAGER environment variable and exporting it in my shell .rc, which was the way I'd been raised to do this. I've declined to file a bug report on this because I want to be sure it goes to the right package (Maintainers are busy enough - if I can essentially track the problem down to a specific patch, hopefully that will save headaches all around.) This solution above may leave a tad of confusion - the symlink needs to be restored to /etc/alternatives/pager for /usr/bin/pager, or you can update-alternatives till the cows come home and still get no pager. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
