Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't

2004-02-18 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:23:12PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe this could be done with the wc -l behavior for when the last > line doesn't have a newline? Maybe I'm weird but I think the POSIX > behavior is clearly counterintuitive. Unless there are wc programs out there that behave d

hostid

2004-02-18 Thread Nicholas Aganan
I'm really confuse on how host id works on Linux box. I though that hostid is derived from the IP address or from /etc/hostid file. I changed my IP address but my Linux box keep the old hostid. My new IP address is 172.20.68.119 but the hostid is still the same. Where does linux keep the hostid

Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't

2004-02-18 Thread Paul Jarc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe this could be done with the wc -l behavior for when the last > line doesn't have a newline? Maybe I'm weird but I think the POSIX > behavior is clearly counterintuitive. If existing implementations agree with each other and with POSIX, then there's no need to chang

bug report

2004-02-18 Thread selva raj
Dear sir, Iam student of M.K university,India. I have tried with your package mirror downloaded from following the url: ftp://ftp.wu-ftpd.org/pub/support/ I have gradually followed the steps acco' to quickstart.html file.But the error comes like 'bash :mirror command not found'. I found this

Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't

2004-02-18 Thread era+gmane
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:57:27 +0100, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Jarc) wrote: >> Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> There is a discrepancy between POSIX and common practice >>> with respect to how `cp -if a b' shou

Re: Bug in tail when following files(?)

2004-02-18 Thread Paul Jarc
Peter Postmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tail -n1 -f /var/log/messages |./festival --tts ... > However, when the -f option is omitted, the last log entry is spoken > completely. That's why I suspect this to be a problem in tail, not is > Festival. Try this: tail -n1 -f /var/log/messages | cat I

Re: Bug in tail when following files(?)

2004-02-18 Thread Peter Postmus
Forgot to mention: I'm using tail from coreutils 5.0. On Wednesday 18 February 2004 01:08, you wrote: > Hi, > > I think i may have found a bug in tail. Recently I have tried to let my > Linux server/router automatically read each new line that is added > to /var/log/messages, through my speakers.

Bug in tail when following files(?)

2004-02-18 Thread Peter Postmus
Hi, I think i may have found a bug in tail. Recently I have tried to let my Linux server/router automatically read each new line that is added to /var/log/messages, through my speakers. I use the Festival text-to-speech engine (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/) to do so. So, when is