Ian Jackson writes:
> > Heh :) Remember we're being nice to each other now Ian :)
>
> I didn't mean I didn't like his patch. I'm sure it does the right
> thing as far as it goes. It's just that /etc/init.d/functions is
> obsolete, and should be replaced with an empty file so that people
> stop t
Below is a draft copy of a revised set of packaging guidelines.
Please comment if you feel appropriate. In a week or so, barring
serious controversy, I'll post a definitive version.
I've made various typo fixes, &c. to the draft Ian M. gave me, and
made the descriptions of the *.txt files availa
Andrew Howell writes:
> Ian Jackson writes:
> > Harald Schueler writes:
> > > I think "functions" should restore the arguments. The following patch
> > > makes works for me:
> >
> > I prefer the patch below.
>
> Heh :) Remember we're being nice to each other now Ian :)
I didn't mean I didn't lik
Alvar Bray writes ("cron mailing root"):
> I have just noticed that at sometime during the slow incremental
> upgrade of my system, cron has stoped mailing root about the jobs it
> runs (mandb updates etc).
>
> Is this correct or have I broken something?
This is correct. It's better to avoid sen
Hi,
the file "/etc/profile" should contain only absolut necessary entries.
Of course there are thousands of tricks one could do in "/etc/profile", but
this stuff (and explanative examples) belong to "/usr/doc/examples".
Nobody really wants to mess around with other people taste regarding
to enviro
Hi,
I have just noticed that at sometime during the slow incremental
upgrade of my system, cron has stoped mailing root about the jobs it
runs (mandb updates etc).
Is this correct or have I broken something?
alvar
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Steve Greenland writes:
>[/etc/profile suggestion]
>> if [ -f $HOME/$ARCH-linux ]; then
>> PATH=$HOME/$ARCH-linux:$PATH
>> else
>> mkdir $HOME/bin 2>/dev/null
>> PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
>> fi
>>
>
>I don't think /etc/profile should be creating directories in my home
>directory.
Ag
[/etc/profile suggestion]
> if [ -f $HOME/$ARCH-linux ]; then
> PATH=$HOME/$ARCH-linux:$PATH
> else
> mkdir $HOME/bin 2>/dev/null
> PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
> fi
>
I don't think /etc/profile should be creating directories in my
home directory. I think if is someone is sufficiently
Ian Jackson writes:
>
> Harald Schueler writes:
> > I think "functions" should restore the arguments. The following patch
> > makes works for me:
>
> I prefer the patch below.
Heh :) Remember we're being nice to each other now Ian :)
Andrew
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Harald Schueler writes:
> I think "functions" should restore the arguments. The following patch
> makes works for me:
I prefer the patch below.
Ian.
--- /etc/init.d/functions Sat Feb 25 21:20:35 1995
+++ /dev/null Thu Mar 30 21:18:57 1995
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/sh
-#
-# functionsT
Matthew Swift writes:
> I recommend that a script like the following, called something like
> 'maintain-texmf', be included with kpathsea.deb, run during its
> postinst, and that a link be placed to the script in cron.daily or
> cron.weekly. (I do not feel strongly about the (new) user group
> "te
Ian Murdock writes:
> A little complicated, perhaps, but he does have good suggestions.
Try. I'd like to take issue with a few of the bits, though:
> # /etc/profile - sh(1) initialization file for Linux-based systems.
> # Copyright (C) 1993-1995 by Dominik Kubla,
...
> # Set the umask:
> # um
Observe the session transcripts below.
The first bug is the coredump.
The second bug is where it won't let me recreate hda3 after having
deleted it, claiming that I'm only allowed to go up to cylinder 2047
for some reason. If I delete hda4 too it will let me do it, and then
I can recreate hda4 s
> "Chris" == Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> Package: man
Chris> Version: 2.3.10
Chris> 1) man -k pattern gives error messages:
Chris> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man -k ftp
Chris> apropos: warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database.
Chris> apropo
Hello Karl Ferguson!
}Package: procps
}Version: 0.97-4
}I was running top on my system tonight and it showed the stats of 124
}processes etc etc. Then on the next "view" 5 seconds later it spits out:
}
}top: Help! Too many processes
}
}Then it exits, and wont let me run it until it's below 130i
Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.57b-1
I want to use the scripts in /etc/init.d to manually start/stop daemons,
e.g. do a "xdm stop", then change the config, and finally "xdm start". I
noticed that "xdm start/stop" does not work, when called manually. This
is because it (and many other scripts) includ
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