On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:52:29PM +0530, Tathagata Banerjee wrote: > bish wrote: > > > Then where is the problem ? Note, the error message you are > > getting is not a bash message. It is probably be from the > > settings of lesspipe in your distro ... Something is being > > routed through an "unsafe" command, which is not on your > > box. I am in no position to guess further ... > > > my distro being pcqlinux, can anyone guess what the possible > `unsafe' command may be ? and how can a command be deemed > unsafe if it isn't on my box in the first place ? this is a > stand-alone desktop. and why does the same problem not occur > if i give a single-word argument to `man -K' ? is the pipe to > stdout any different when the argument is a multi-word string > enclosed in double quotes? >
Don't get me wrong. Error is "sh: unsafe: command not found." The shell (sh) has found that it could not execute an internal or external command with the name "unsafe". The "unsafe" here is different from a "RDX" type of scene ! Many distros route man through a pager (usually less). Some of the distros set up a pre-processor for less called "lesspipe". This is a shell script. See if you can view this script and find any occurance of "unsafe" (which can be commented out) and then re-tried. Whay I wanted to say was somebody on PCQ Linux should check out from where this "unsafe" command is originat- ing. This is NOT there in most distros. > people using pcqlinux, please tell me whether the problem can > be replicated on your machines. > Yes, this is the kind of thing needed ... only PCQ Linux folk can help here ... > > bish wrote: > >>> What your are looking at is 'man 2' of chmod and not man 1. >>> Most folk don't need man 2 pages (System Calls), and just >>> about need the man 1 pages (Commands). Do a 'man 7 man' for >>> finer details. > > actually, i didn't look at "man 2 chmod" at all. it was the > brief mention of "save text image" in "man 1 chmod" itself > that intrigued me enough to try to find out about it :-) > The reference here is also different. You had queried on some things which are in man 2 ( viz. what is -1--- ? or something like that). That bit is not in 'man 1', but in 'man 2'of chmod Bish. : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Suppressing login messages LOST #112 Login program will display the contents of /etc/motd (Message Of The Day). To stop it from displaying create a zero length file called .hushlogin in your home dir (viz touch .hushlogin) ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
