From nobody Tue Sep 16 05:10:47 1997 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA20515; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 05:10:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709161210.FAA20515@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 05:10:47 -0700 (PDT) From: thz@tuebingen.netsurf.de To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: man fails to open manpage if ./man exists in current dir. X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0 >Number: 4553 >Category: bin >Synopsis: man fails to open manpage if ./man exists in current dir. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 16 05:20:00 PDT 1997 >Closed-Date: Sun Nov 15 14:18:22 PST 1998 >Last-Modified: Sun Nov 15 14:19:05 PST 1998 >Originator: Thomas Zenker >Release: 2.2.1/2.2.2 >Organization: Lennartz electronic >Environment: FreeBSD mezcal.tue.le 2.2.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #5: Mon Sep 15 14:36:54 MET DST 1997 thz@mezcal.tue.le:/usr/src/sys/compile/MEZCAL i386 >Description: /usr/bin/man man failes to open the man page if it exists in ./man/manX/manpage.X but not in ./man/catX/manpage.X.gz Obviously it happens because man changes into the directory ./man itself. I didn't verify why there is such a relative directory in the man search path (manpath shows "....:./man:..." last (the offending) line of the output of man -d bpool: "trying command: (cd ./man ; /bin/cat ./man/man3/bpool.3 | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bi n/groff -Wall -mtty-char -Tascii -man | /usr/bin/col | /usr/local/bin/less) this will never work, because we are searching in ./man/man/man3 >How-To-Repeat: Create a man directory structure in the current directory, create a manpage in man/man3/mymanpage.3, do a man mymanpage. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: From: Thomas Zenker To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, thz@tuebingen.netsurf.de Cc: Subject: Re: bin/4553: man fails to open manpage if ./man exists in current dir. Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:42:31 +0100 This does not happen anymore on 2.2.7 nor on CURRENT-3.0. State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: steve State-Changed-When: Sun Nov 15 14:18:22 PST 1998 State-Changed-Why: Closed at originator's request. >Unformatted: