Segmentation fault in su

2005-11-20 Thread Ahamed.MLA
Hi, If i login as an ordinary user(admin), and try to switch to ROOT user, iam getting Segmentating fault, though iam member of wheel group and given trust in /etc/pam.d/su %PAM-1.0 ### /etc/pam.d/su --> auth required /lib/security/pam_wheel.so group=wheel # /etc/group --

Re: Bug#339136: Changes in stat package output break apt-move

2005-11-20 Thread ThMO
Hello Jim and others, wouldn't it be better to implement the full backslashed sequences inside print_esc() than only `\n'? CU Tom. (Thomas M.Ott) Germany ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-co

Re: Segmentation fault in su

2005-11-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Ahamed.MLA wrote: > If i login as an ordinary user(admin), and try to switch to ROOT > user, iam getting Segmentating fault, though iam member of wheel > group and given trust in /etc/pam.d/su A segmentation fault indicates access to memory that is out of bounds. Requiring being in the wheel

Re: better buffer size for copy

2005-11-20 Thread Robert Latham
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 10:49:07AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > I don't see why the filesystem's cluster size should have a thing to do > with the buffer size used to copy files. For optimal performance, the > larger the buffer, the better. Diminishing returns applies of course, > so at some p

bug in sort with '.' in strings

2005-11-20 Thread Michael J. Dinneen
Hi, Sort seems to ignore (incorrectly handle) the character '.' in the strings. The following output is what I get with: $ sort --version sort (coreutils) 4.5.3 Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert. Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for

Re: bug in sort with '.' in strings

2005-11-20 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Michael J. Dinneen wrote: Sort seems to ignore (incorrectly handle) the character '.' in the strings. Please see this FAQ entry, "Sort does not sort in normal order!": http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/coreutils-faq.html#Sort-does-not-sort-in-normal-order_0021 Ch

Re: bug in sort with '.' in strings

2005-11-20 Thread Eric Blake
> > Hi, > > Sort seems to ignore (incorrectly handle) the character '.' in the > strings. The following output is what I get with: > > $ sort --version > sort (coreutils) 4.5.3 > Written by Mike Haertel and Paul Eggert. This version is quite old. The current stable version is 5.93, see the a

Re: better buffer size for copy

2005-11-20 Thread Phillip Susi
What would such network filesystems report as their blocksize? I have a feeling it isn't going to be on the order of a MB. At least for local filesystems, the ideal transfer block size is going to be quite a bit larger than the filesystem block size ( if the filesystem is even block oriented.