some messed up man-pages
by baumei from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5EFSD)
I have three computers which run Slackware 14.2. Two are in service, and are up-to-date with patches; the other was taken out of service, and no longer gets patches. All three are three are configured in a rather similar manner.
Today, I happened to run Code:darkstar:~$ man dig and saw the output is messed up. Seeing this, I brought up some other man-pages. I found that Code:darkstar:~$ man nslookup also gives messed up output. The other man-pages were fine. The messed up output looks like this Code:DIG(1) BIND9 DIG(1)
.SH "NAME" dig - DNS lookup utility
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP 96u
dig
[@server]
[-b address]
[-c class]
[-f filename]
[-k filename]
[-m]
[-p port#]
[-q name]
[-t type]
[-v]
[-x addr]
[-y [hmac:]name:key]The computer which was taken out of service does not have a problem displaying the dig and nslookup man-pages. It has bind-9.11.22-i586-1_slack14.2.txz installed.
The two computers which display the messed up man-pages have bind-9.11.25-i586-1_slack14.2.txz installed.
Do the computers of anyone else give similar output?
Today, I happened to run Code:darkstar:~$ man dig and saw the output is messed up. Seeing this, I brought up some other man-pages. I found that Code:darkstar:~$ man nslookup also gives messed up output. The other man-pages were fine. The messed up output looks like this Code:DIG(1) BIND9 DIG(1)
.SH "NAME" dig - DNS lookup utility
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP 96u
dig
[@server]
[-b address]
[-c class]
[-f filename]
[-k filename]
[-m]
[-p port#]
[-q name]
[-t type]
[-v]
[-x addr]
[-y [hmac:]name:key]The computer which was taken out of service does not have a problem displaying the dig and nslookup man-pages. It has bind-9.11.22-i586-1_slack14.2.txz installed.
The two computers which display the messed up man-pages have bind-9.11.25-i586-1_slack14.2.txz installed.
Do the computers of anyone else give similar output?