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Moritz · 2003-06-26 21:42:40

hey guys!

i got a problem with all of my man pages. they all look this way:

UMASK(2)                   Linux Programmer's Manual                  UMASK(2)

ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
       umask - set file creation mask

ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
       ESC[1m#include <sys/types.h>ESC[0m
       ESC[1m#include <sys/stat.h>ESC[0m

       ESC[1mmode_t umask(mode_t ESC[4mESC[22mmaskESC[24mESC[1m);ESC[0m

ESC[1mDESCRIPTIONESC[0m
       ESC[1mumask ESC[22msets the umask to ESC[4mmaskESC[24m & 0777.

i've reinstalled man-pages, but it doesn't change anything...
the installation is very old (0.3 with pacman -Syu). the problem is fixed on all other systems. it happens just on this one... any ideas?

regards,
moritz

hApy · 2003-06-27 00:16:06

I think it's probably your terminal settings.... try either changing them in your terminal program or changing your $TERM variable. Mine is "xterm-color", try that?

Hapy.

sarah31 · 2003-06-27 00:16:40

i believe if you reinstall groff it should work. apeiro can verify this.

apeiro · 2003-06-27 01:05:25

Yea, you'll need to log out and then log back in again to inherit the new $LESS environment variable.

Or you can just type this:

# export LESS=-R

Moritz · 2003-06-27 07:39:16

just log out and log in won't work, but export LESS=-R does!

Thank you!

Gyroplast · 2003-06-27 10:37:36

Just for the record.. exactly this problem and it's solution can be found in the unofficial FAQ. *hint* *hint*

Something I cannot quite understand, tho, is why this problem exists in the first place? What's going wrong that this export line isn't included in the default profile?

Gyro

sarah31 · 2003-06-27 14:14:45

it was in mine

Moritz · 2003-06-27 15:30:33

Gyroplast wrote:

Just for the record.. exactly this problem and it's solution can be found in the unofficial FAQ. *hint* *hint*

What about publishing news when updating the FAQ.
I've read it some/long time ago...........

Gyroplast · 2003-06-27 19:45:33

Yeah, probably a good idea, but since the last update has been on Thu May 22 09:45:11 2003, the FAQ simply isn't new right now.

rshetye · 2004-02-10 21:24:11

for the record:

I use tcsh and not bash. I ran into the same problems. Here are the changes I needed in my .tcshrc file

# Arch linux specific stuff
setenv TERM "xterm-color"
setenv LESS "-R"

Also, arch-linux does not use (the older) termcap [ /etc/termcap ]. It uses the newer terminfo. [ /usr/share/terminfo/*/* ] . "man terminfo" for guidance.
The 'setenv TERM "xterm-color"' setting enables colour in gvim, vim etc. instead of the ugly monochromatic-underlined-las-vegas-style-blinking interface that you see with 'setenv TERM "xterm"'.
The 'setenv LESS "-R"' setting deals with the ESC chars and gives you clean man pages.

On a side note:
Moved my Pentium 3 server from gentoo to arch-linux, and was up and running in less than a day. very impressive except hosts.allow and hosts.deny bit me in the @ss for some time. Still keep gentoo on my laptop around for bleeding-edge-state-of-the-art cvs-access to Gnome.
Debian sucks. Its like a 1950's record, sure it works but its so dusty and out of date.
Gentoo failed me when it came to binary-based releases. Arch fills that gap more than easily. Only thing I DONT use pacman for is kernels, currently building my own. Will try that out some time.
Thanks everyone for a great distro and a great forum. Your attention to user-feedback mechanisms is the best in the industry (open-source or otherwise).

Please add openbox stuff to the repository. I am running openbox with bbpager on my server and would like access to obconf and other openbox tools.
--
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scottro · 2004-02-10 21:44:30

There also seem to be issues with non-standard, i.e. other than bash, shells. For instance, I use zsh and have to manually add my PATH to my zshrc. I ~thought~ that had been what my problem was with $LESS as well, and though I tried hacking /etc/profile, I didn't do a good job--results were rather funny actually.

Scott

sarah31 · 2004-02-10 21:52:14

rshetye wrote:

Please add openbox stuff to the repository. I am running openbox with bbpager on my server and would like access to obconf and other openbox tools.

i think there may be some openbox tools in the TURs or staging.

rshetye · 2004-02-11 02:49:00

thanks for the tip, sarah31.

putting it all in one thread so that anyone with my kind of system finds all the answers in one place.

for the record:

TUR = Trusted-User Repositories
What is a TUR ? e.g. http://tur.berlios.de/mission.php

TUR settings are added to /etc/pacman.conf e.g. http://tur.berlios.de/repos.php - also contains list of packages hosted by each TUR. After going thru this list of packages, I've decided to add deepfreeze's TUR and the staging area to my /etc/pacman.conf so that I get access to obconf and some other things that I want.

[deepfreeze]
Server = ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/tur/deepfreeze

[staging]
Server = ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/tur/staging

This means that I've decided to trust deepfreeze, and anyone else who has access to berlios' staging area - make your own decisions carefully.

tbuitenh · 2004-03-08 19:44:06

I have the same problem, but only in xterm, not on the console.
/etc/profile does contain the line

export LESS=-R

.
I also put that line in my .bashrc , which helped. Is there a way to do this for all users without editing all their .bashrcs?
Manual pages also contain junk when viewed with xman. export LESS=-R does not solve this (of course not, xman doesn't use less!).

As this is my first post, I'd like to say Arch is better than I expected from a 0.x version. Much better.

tbuitenh · 2004-03-08 19:52:44

I added this line to /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession:

source /etc/profile

Of course xman still looks like ****. Any ideas how to fix that?

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