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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:33:35
Message-Id: 201003020633.22121.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo. by Neil Bothwick
1 On Monday 01 March 2010 10:11:18 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:08:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > We just log the fact of running sudo. The admins are trusted to not
4 > > cock things up, and if they do, to not try and hide it. The philosophy
5 > > is simple - if we feel we can't trust you, we would not have hired you.
6 >
7 > That is sensible, if not good for your BOFH rating :)
8 >
9 > > Editing root's history after the fact to hide your tracks is considered
10 > > a heinous crime of unimaginable proportions. Anyone caught doing it is
11 > > sentenced to buy cake for the entire technical team. That's about 100
12 > > people. And when I saw cake I don't mean a teeny weeny jam tart each, I
13 > > mean cake - chocolate filled croissants, black forest and my personal
14 > > favourite: 4 inch high carrot cake.
15 >
16 > I take that back :)
17
18 Coming back to the OP, on a brand new installation, while on the console and
19 logged in as root user, I also see ESC all over the man pages. I do not have
20 this problem on older boxen, nor do I remember noticing it in the past. What
21 is causing it and what is the fix?
22 --
23 Regards,
24 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo. Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>