Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 161776
telnet man page has a formatting problem
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:18 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: Typing 'man telnet' just gives you unformatted garbage like this: ------------- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .TH TELNET 1 .SH NAME telnet − user interface to the TELNET protocol .SH SYNOPSIS .B telnet [−8] [−E] [−F] [−K] [−L] [−S tos] [−X authtype] [−a] [−c] [−d] [−e escapechar] [−f] [−k realm] [−l user] [−n tracefile] [−r] [−x] [host [port]] The command is used to communi- cate with another host using the protocol. If is invoked without the argument, it enters command mode, indicated by its prompt ( In this ------------- However, the file /usr/share/man/man1/telnet.1.gz looks like properly formatted groff, also "less /usr/share/man/man1/telnet.1.gz" automagically formats everything correctly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: n/a Actual Results: n/a Expected Results: n/a Additional info: n/a
what is the output of: # man -aw telnet ??
It might just be that the problem has been fixed. On a RH ES 4 system that has not be updated in a long time, the problem occurs as described: # man -aw telnet /usr/kerberos/man/man1/telnet.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/telnet.1.gz # rpm --query telnet telnet-0.17-30 # uname -a Linux foo 2.6.9-5.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Feb 14 10:00:21 EST 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux On a recently updated system ,the problem does no longer occur: # man -aw telnet /usr/kerberos/man/man1/telnet.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/telnet.1.gz # rpm --query telnet telnet-0.17-31.EL4.3 # uname -a Linux bar 2.6.9-11.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri May 20 18:25:30 EDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
try this: # man /usr/kerberos/man/man1/telnet.1.gz # man /usr/share/man/man1/telnet.1.gz
On the older system where "man telnet" gives unformatted output: # man /usr/kerberos/man/man1/telnet.1.gz --> Unformatted # man /usr/share/man/man1/telnet.1.gz --> Formatted Ah-ha. ($MANPATH is currently "/usr/java/jdk/man::/usr/local/apache2/man:/usr/local/mysql/man" $LANG on both systems is en_US.UTF-8) On the newer system where "man telnet" gives formatted output: # man /usr/kerberos/man/man1/telnet.1.gz --> Formatted # man /usr/share/man/man1/telnet.1.gz --> Formatted Right. The 'man telnet' page is indeed the kerberos manpage on both systems as it mentions 'k5login' among others.
$ rpm -qf /usr/kerberos/man/man1/telnet.1.gz krb5-workstation-1.4-3
David, I think the update which corrected this for you was krb5-workstation-1.3.4-13, which incorporated the fix from bug #120618. Closing as fixed in current release because an updated system has the fix.