On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 08:52:45AM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > It's been missing on my system, too, since about when man-db last moved > into testing (not saying it was man-db that did this, just that the time > was the same.) That said, I just went with the older solution of > defining the PAGER environment variable and exporting it in my shell > .rc, which was the way I'd been raised to do this. I've declined to file > a bug report on this because I want to be sure it goes to the right > package (Maintainers are busy enough - if I can essentially track the > problem down to a specific patch, hopefully that will save headaches all > around.)
Can I guess that you have sawfish-pager installed? It used to clobber /usr/bin/pager, although it's been fixed now. > This solution above may leave a tad of confusion - the symlink needs to > be restored to /etc/alternatives/pager for /usr/bin/pager, or you can > update-alternatives till the cows come home and still get no pager. Mea culpa. My tests weren't complete enough: update-alternatives seems to restore the symlink if only one possible alternative is present, but not otherwise. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]