man pages formating (msg to Chris)

[Cyber.Zombie]

As a way to get past the excessive domain stuff, you can always grab a 
subset.  Ex:

    mkpasswd -d abaton -u rhannah

I don't see any similar feature for mkgroup...

aoratos wrote:

> Larry Hall wrote:
>
>> At 11:03 AM 6/16/2004, you wrote:
>>
>>> When I view man pages it doesn't format them properly, instead it 
>>> shows codes like ESC[1m . . . how do I fix this?
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Check your '/usr/share/misc/man.config' file.  Make sure PAGER is set
>> to '/usr/bin/less -isrR'.
>>
>
> Chris, I am having the same problems you just posted (man pages messed 
> up and .bashrc problems).
>
> I have confirmed that my .bashrc and /usr/share/misc/man.conf (not 
> man.config on my machine) are in the correct places and have the 
> correct contents.  I believe my problem is related to permissions, the 
> config files are not being read even though I am the owner.  While 
> checking Larry Hall's suggestion (thanks) I could not read the 
> man.conf file until I did a chmod on it.  I am guessing my problem is 
> related to "ntsec" and the fact that whenever I try to run mkpasswd 
> and mkgroup as required, they die or timeout because I am on a global 
> enterprise domain.
>
> I'm sorry this really isn't an answer for you, but I thought it might 
> help your own troubleshooting.
>
> Aoratos
>
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