Re: [PATCH] Add new program: magic

2008-04-09 Thread Brock Noland
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > | So far, it includes the following utilities: > > > > | - sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file > > > > Eh? That sounds like 'cat > file'... So you can read from and writ

Re: [PATCH] Add new program: magic

2008-04-09 Thread Matthew Woehlke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | So far, it includes the following utilities: | - sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file Eh? That sounds like 'cat > file'... -- Matthew Look! A randomly selected yet highly appropriate signature! ___ Bug-cor

Re: [PATCH] Add new program: magic

2008-04-09 Thread no-spam
Hi Bo, > As I mentioned last week, I've patched my local `sort' to allow > automatic decompression of input files if an option, --magic-open, is > passed on the command line. > > As I thought more about this functionality I realized that it may be > more broadly useful. Any utility that can opera

Re: [PATCH] Add new program: magic

2008-04-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Bo Borgerson wrote: > As I thought more about this functionality I realized that it may be > more broadly useful. Any utility that can operate on multiple input > files could benefit. I wondered if it would be possible in a > non-invasive way to provide this service to other tools. This is what

[PATCH] Add new program: magic

2008-04-09 Thread Bo Borgerson
Hi, As I mentioned last week, I've patched my local `sort' to allow automatic decompression of input files if an option, --magic-open, is passed on the command line. As I thought more about this functionality I realized that it may be more broadly useful. Any utility that can operate on multiple

Re: Problems with coreutils-6.10.176-383b1.tar.gz

2008-04-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Peter Fales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm testing the latest coreutils snapshot (6.10.176-383b1) on several > platforms and on three of them, the seq command is failing in "make check" > > On Solaris 8 (sparc), Solaris 8 (intel), and SGI Irix 6.2, the command; > > src/seq 0.8 0.1 0.900

Re: NotLoggingdetails when user changes system time with date command

2008-04-09 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Chinnakka K Batakurki wrote: When I changed the Linux system time by using date -s command, the info is not logged to /var/log/wtmp wtmp is a file for recording user login/logout activity. whereas when I change the Hardware clock with hwclock command, it is logged to : /

NotLoggingdetails when user changes system time with date command

2008-04-09 Thread Chinnakka K Batakurki
Hi, When I changed the Linux system time by using date -s command, the info is not logged to /var/log/wtmp whereas when I change the Hardware clock with hwclock command, it is logged to : /etc/adjtime Could you please let me know is there any setting needs to be done to get the logs related to