On Wed 09 Jan 2002, Juha J wrote: > When I try to view any man page, there is a strange, about 10 second, > delay before *anything* happens. Next, man says it's reformatting the page > etc. There is not even any disc or CPU activity during the wait. (Disc-LED > is off; top says CPU usage is 0.0%.)
You can try truss to see what system calls it's making (and what's being done during the pause). Does it do the delay if you redirect the output to a file? Does it make a difference whether you do it as root or as a normal user? Did you install it suid (as asked by the debconf question during installation)? Paul Slootman