Re: default umask

1998-12-22 Thread Scott McDermott
Andrew Pimlott on Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 12:57:53AM -0500: > > IMHO, it should be possible to specify a global setting that works > > with ALL shells. Otherwise, the system administrator has to modify > > each shell individually. > > But as long as we don't have a uniform solution ... What's wrong

Re: [OT] "government"

1998-12-06 Thread Scott McDermott
Darren Benham on Sat, Dec 05, 1998 at 08:33:13PM -0800: > > I just have an observation to make: you guys are getting > > increasingly *bureaucratized*. Like, massively so. I like all the > > [...] > > It's like auto insurance... most of the time you don't need it.. maybe > never need it. But wh

[OT] "government"

1998-12-06 Thread Scott McDermott
I'm not a Debian developer, just a long time lurker. I just have an observation to make: you guys are getting increasingly *bureaucratized*. Like, massively so. I like all the principles and everything but I think all this definition and concretism is just bloated procedure. Are all these adden

Re: Hard links

1998-03-28 Thread Scott McDermott
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 12:37:48PM -0800: > hard links, this is not an issue. This makes hard links more robust and a > better choice for certian situations. This is why they continue to exist, > and have not been replaced entirely by symlinks allready. Hard links are

Re: manpage for GNU utilities?

1998-02-22 Thread Scott McDermott
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 10:37:15PM -0600: > Who needs to pull up emacs to read info pages? there is a > stand alone info, which is faster than lynx, and has way > better search capabilities than either lynx or "less". Info is better suited for certain i