Re: wildcards in changelist(5)

2011-06-12 Thread Michael Knudsen
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:55:25PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > some time ago, mk@ and matthew@ discovered a regression in security(8): > Our rewrite killed changelist(5) wildcard support. > > I think we should put it back, the changelist(5) manual explicitly > documents the feature. I've tested

Re: Small pgrep/pkill enhancement

2011-06-12 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:31:32 + Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:15:58 +0200 > Benny Lofgren wrote: > > > Me personally, I'm scared as hell using pkill at all. I've never been > > concerned with not killing *enough*, it's almost always that I'm afraid > > I'm killing too *much*..

Re: Small pgrep/pkill enhancement

2011-06-12 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:41:16 -0500 Chris Bennett wrote: > I would like a verbose option where I can be notified if nothing matched. /usr/bin/pgrep asxbabsjkcnjklcneo || /bin/echo "Nout matched"

Re: Small pgrep/pkill enhancement

2011-06-12 Thread Chris Bennett
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 04:31:32PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:15:58 +0200 > Benny Lofgren wrote: > > > Me personally, I'm scared as hell using pkill at all. I've never been > > concerned with not killing *enough*, it's almost always that I'm afraid > > I'm killing too *m

Re: Small pgrep/pkill enhancement

2011-06-12 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:15:58 +0200 Benny Lofgren wrote: > Me personally, I'm scared as hell using pkill at all. I've never been > concerned with not killing *enough*, it's almost always that I'm afraid > I'm killing too *much*... Most of the time, the regex matching makes it usable. I'd rather se

Re: En/disabling power button shutdown

2011-06-12 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:14:02 +0200 gilbert.fernan...@orange.fr wrote: > They had to put pieces of paper in front of the power buttons > because when you move a machine sometimes your finger presses > the power button. A matchbox with a hole in it acts like a reset button protection.

Re: En/disabling power button shutdown

2011-06-12 Thread gilbert . fernandes
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:38:33AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > whether or not the power button is disabled, there are plenty of things > which can go wrong with such a move. do it the right way, especially for > a server relied on by 100+ users... True :-) Well I guess that's a mistake I wo

Re: En/disabling power button shutdown

2011-06-12 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011/06/11 21:06, gilbert.fernan...@orange.fr wrote: >We have to add one, so move the others > on one side, and by moving one we accidentally pressed a > power button and the machine did shut down... Without > almost a hundred machines depending on it and people working > on

Re: Small pgrep/pkill enhancement

2011-06-12 Thread Janne Johansson
2011/6/12 Philip Guenther > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Ted Unangst > wrote: > > Funny enough, when pkill was first added I added an option to confirm > > each kill. Guess what letter it used? That's right, -i, modeled > > after rm. > > "Confirm each kill"? Ah, that's the option to follo