From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nllbs-0006wK-2c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:03:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7237E09F7 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:03:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE82E081A for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:25:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 414EE1B4160 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:25:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.98 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.98 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.381, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4jpHVZDxnUZM for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:25:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C41B1B418B for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:25:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nlkk0-0000af-Ny for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:07:32 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-217-161.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.217.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:07:32 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-217-161.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:07:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo. Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:07:18 -0800 Message-ID: References: <4B89E9B0.3040505@gmail.com> <4ef07b8c1002272032g77833db8p341219b5881dc222@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-217-161.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a2pre) Gecko/20100224 Shredder/3.2a1pre In-Reply-To: <4ef07b8c1002272032g77833db8p341219b5881dc222@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7b74e861-b0ed-443e-bee2-b302c408678e X-Archives-Hash: 5baf1abb370cbcb7bc7fc3fc5ec3f263 On 02/27/2010 08:32 PM, Dan Cowsill wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:57 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: >> If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man >> pages, they are covered in "ESC". This does not occur when using normal >> user accounts or the root account through su. Wondering what is going >> on. Thanks. >> >> > > Kind of curious about this myself. It has just been a minor annoyance > to me for the last couple of years, but it seems to show up only when > logged onto root. There are several environment variables that affect the output of man, e.g. PAGER, LESS, LESSCOLOR, LESSOPEN, LESSIGNORE, the contents of ~/.lessfilter and probably other things I can't remember. Any of those might be different for root.