On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 08:43:24PM +0100, Inge Thorin Eidsaether wrote: > 1 - I keep getting console messages about > 'eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full duplex, lpa 0x41E1' and > 'eth0: link down'. These two messages alternate regularly. > When the link is down, of course I cannot connect to anything. > Also, how do I avoid getting these annoying messages?
are you sure this isn't a problem with your connection? do you get similar
messages on your freebsd box? i think the easiest way to keep those messages
off your console is to redirect them in /etc/syslog.conf(5)
> 2 - Doing a 'man-k <some_command>' (or man -f <some_command>) does not work.
> Is there a misconfiguration somewhere?
man -k searches for keywords, not commands... or do you mean that it just
doesn't work at all? i know that man -k was segfaulting on my unstable
box for a while, but it's since been fixed and you said you're running stable.
if it doesn't work at all, what version of man-db do you have installed?
(you can find this out with dpkg --status man-db)
> 3 - How do I go backwards in a man page reading? Looks like 'more' is used to
> page the ouput to screen, but 'b' or ^B does not work here.
> Silly question, maybe...
it might be that you only have more installed. try apt-get install less
and see if that fixes your problem.
hth
sean
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