Programm Less is not working anymore

[rsauvat]

Hi
I have installed Proxmox 1.4 6 month ago and it's working fine for me except recently the less command doesn't work. Every time I use it, it displays the text file for a blinking second and then exit. This is really frustrating because I can't read man pages with the man command. I have installed several Debian 5 on other servers and there is no problems at all. So if anyone has a solution or a hint it will be greatly appreciated.

Regards.

 

[udo]

Hi
I have installed Proxmox 1.4 6 month ago and it's working fine for me except recently the less command doesn't work. Every time I use it, it displays the text file for a blinking second and then exit. This is really frustrating because I can't read man pages with the man command. I have installed several Debian 5 on other servers and there is no problems at all. So if anyone has a solution or a hint it will be greatly appreciated.

Regards.

Hi,
less and man-pages work's well on my systems. Now i have only pve 1.5 for test...
Perhaps your TERM-env are not correct?
With a shell from linux to proxmox the TERM is set to xterm.

Udo

 

[rsauvat]

Thanks for the reply.
Here is my environment. I think it's the standard when installing proxmox. I don't remember modifying it.

root@myserver:~# env
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/1
USER=root
LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:su=37;41:sg=30;43:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.svgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:
MAIL=/var/mail/root
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
PWD=/root
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHLVL=1
HOME=/root
LOGNAME=root
_=/usr/bin/env

 

[rsauvat]

I finally found the problem. My file /dev/tty was a plain text file insted of a special file. so I removed it and I create the right character device.

mknod /dev/tty c 5 0