Hi, I am sorry about this stupid question but after compilation of openssh-2.3.0p1 the manpages were installed but a man ssh gives only unstructured response without underlined lines etc. A nroff -man sshd.8 gives the same output but the contents of the file shows a nroff-format. Any ideas? My system is a HP-UX 11.000 with the pam-patch. regards Stephan -- LDS Brandenburg Dr. Stephan Hendl fon: +49-(0)331-39 471 fax: +49-(0)331-27548 1187 EMail: stephan.hendl at lds.brandenburg.de
Hi, On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:36:31AM +0100, Stephan Hendl wrote:> I am sorry about this stupid question but after compilation of openssh-2.3.0p1 the manpages were installed but a man ssh gives only unstructured response without underlined lines etc. A nroff -man sshd.8 gives the same output but the contents of the file shows a nroff-format.Seconded. I thought it was only me (and didn't investigate further). To me, it seems as if some nroff-macros are used that "generic nroff -man" doesn't know.> Any ideas? > My system is a HP-UX 11.000 with the pam-patch.IBM AIX 4.3. gert -- USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! //www.muc.de/~gert/ Gert Doering - Munich, Germany gert at greenie.muc.de fax: +49-89-35655025 gert.doering at physik.tu-muenchen.de
Try configure --with-catman=man (and what ever other switches you use) Then u could just make manpages to install only the manpages. Donald Smith Staff IP Engineer IP Network Engineering Security 303-226-9939 Office 303-226-0688 fax 720-320-1537 cell> -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Dykstra [mailto:dwd at bell-labs.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 11:54 AM > To: Gert Doering > Cc: Stephan Hendl; openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org > Subject: Re: man pages won't work > > > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:48:22PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 11:36:31AM +0100, Stephan Hendl wrote: > > > I am sorry about this stupid question but after > compilation of openssh-2.3.0p1 the manpages were installed > but a man ssh gives only unstructured response without > underlined lines etc. A nroff -man sshd.8 gives the same > output but the contents of the file shows a nroff-format. > > > > Seconded. I thought it was only me (and didn't investigate > further). > > > > To me, it seems as if some nroff-macros are used that > "generic nroff -man" > > doesn't know. > > It's using -mandoc instead of -man. I can get that to work with GNU's > nroff but not any others, and I can see this is going to be a problem > for me because not everywhere I need to deploy openssh to will have > access to -mandoc. > > - Dave Dykstra >
look at scp.0 and scp.1 with nroff -man scp.0 | more it looks like a normal man page. look at scp.1 with nroff -man scp.1 |more it looks like unformated text. The scp.0 file is for catman the scp.1 file is for TROFFMAN or MANPAGES per the Makefile. SOLUTION those of you with broken manpages just copy the *.0 files into the correct directories. (/usr/local/man/man1,5,8) Donald Smith Staff IP Engineer IP Network Engineering Security 303-226-9939 Office 303-226-0688 fax 720-320-1537 cell> -----Original Message----- > From: Damien Miller [mailto:djm at mindrot.org] > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 3:09 PM > To: Gert Doering > Cc: Stephan Hendl; openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org > Subject: Re: man pages won't work > > > On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Gert Doering wrote: > > > Seconded. I thought it was only me (and didn't investigate > further). > > > > To me, it seems as if some nroff-macros are used that > "generic nroff -man" > > doesn't know. > > A few people have reported this as a problem. > > If someone with an affected system and better knowledge of > nroff can come > up with a solution it would be appreciated. > > -d > > -- > | ``We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on | > Damien Miller - > | a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the | > <djm at mindrot.org> > | works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, / > | we know this is not true.'' - Robert Wilensky UCB / > http://www.mindrot.org > > >
To fix your whatis database just do a makewhatis or catman -w to rebuild the index for your new manpages. MANPATH probably needs to be set to find manpages in /usr/local/man. Donald Smith Staff IP Engineer IP Network Engineering Security 303-226-9939 Office 303-226-0688 fax 720-320-1537 cell> -----Original Message----- > From: Nate Itkin [mailto:nitkin at europa.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 7:56 PM > To: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org > Subject: Re: man pages won't work > > > My workaround was to distribute the formatted files > (/.../man/cat{1,8}) > created using gnroff/mandoc to the systems without those utilities. > You don't have a whatis database, but otherwise it works fine. > > -- > - Nate Itkin > - Nate.Itkin at europa.com > - "Looking for an off-ramp on the Information Superhighway" >