[ug-bosug] man page browser

[Venky]

Looks like root's home directory has been overwritten.  This is
one of the many reasons why it is very dangerous to log in and
work as root.  Running your email client inside the root account
is especially dangerous.

Funny that a tarball extract should do this, however.  You could
run a find in the home directory and see what files are left:

cd && find . -print

Unless things are seriously messed up and files other than those
in the root directory have been messed up, you might not need to
reinstall the OS.

Venky.


On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 01:25:32AM +0530, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote:
> hello
> 
> I followed the link to tkman.sourceforge.net and it pointed to two file
> download links, I downloaded the files, and in the process of extracting the
> files, something must have happened, my browser completely failed the next
> time I logged in. I am not sure if it is because of the tkman download. I
> tried to launch my browser from Java Desktop, from CDE, the browser did not
> launch. There was an indication of any error message either... All this when
> logged in as root.
> 
> Within the 1.7 browser there is an email client, I have downloaded a lot
> messages and wonder what happened to the email file folder.
> 
> Should I reinstall Solaris 10 ? Is there are way of repairing the browser
> without going through the reinstallation routine ? If I should reinstall the
> entire O/S is there a way of reninstalling without damaging the existing
> files and the partition / slicing structure ?
> 
> Thank you.
> Sivasubramanian.
> 
> 
> On 4/2/07, Binu Jose Philip <binu.j.philip at sun.com> wrote:
> >
> >G N S <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >> On 3/30/07, Sriram Popuri <sgpopuri at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>           Recently someone was asking me about a man page browser.
> >>      Found this interesting. Gives man pages of many OSes.
> >>
> >>      http://modman.unixdev.net/
> >>
> >>      But I guess this searches only the synopsis like apropos.
> >>
> >>      Anything on similar lines or better?
> >
> >If you use [X]emacs then "woman" can do the job. It does not need
> >an external formatter and does name completion. No apropos search.
> >But you get all editing bells and whistles on the man page also.
> >
> >Yes, not useful without the emacs.
> >
> >cheers
> >Binu
> >
> >> tkman ( http://tkman.sourceforge.net ) does a decent job (tk based GUI
> >manpage browser on the system).
> >> Not exactly like the one above. This offers lot more functionality than
> >man command.
> >> For those who find man command incovenient to browser through and search
> >different commands, tkman might be
> >> useful.
> >> regards
> >> ~Shiv
> >>
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