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Re: man unsafe shell command


On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote:

> When I run the man command on a file in a local
> directory, I get
>
> not executing command:
>   <unsafe shell command>
>
> and no output is produced.  I have checked with
> different manpages (ones copied to the local directory
> from /usr/man) and I get the same error.  man works
> well otherwise.
>
> Google search revealed
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg01022.html
> but there has been no resolution AFAIK.
>
> This is the output is of "man -d ./command.1"
>
> Reading config file /usr/share/misc/man.conf
> found man directory /usr/share/man
> found man directory /usr/ssl/man
> found man directory /usr/man
> found man directory /usr/X11R6/man
> found man directory /usr/local/share/man
> found man directory /usr/local/man
> found man directory /opt/gnome/man
> found manpath map /bin --> /usr/share/man
> found manpath map /sbin --> /usr/share/man
> found manpath map /usr/bin --> /usr/share/man
> found manpath map /usr/sbin --> /usr/share/man
> found manpath map /usr/local/bin --> /usr/local/share/man
> found manpath map /usr/local/sbin --> /usr/local/share/man
> found manpath map /usr/X11R6/bin --> /usr/X11R6/man
> found manpath map /opt/gnome/bin --> /opt/gnome/man
>
> using less as pager
> using default preprocessor sequence
> found tbl(1) directive
>
> not executing command:
>   <unsafe shell command>
>
> Thanks.

Elvin,

Exactly which man page fails?  Could you possibly attach the failing one,
along with the exact command to reproduce the failure?  Also, when
invoking man, you don't give it the actual man page, AFAIK, but the name
of the command...
	Igor
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