Re: softraid clarification in manpage

2011-01-27 Thread Nick Guenther
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 04:24:07PM -0600, Amit Kulkarni wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just configured a mirror using softraid, the manpage was extremely >> helpful. I just copy pasted the relevant commands. To a complete >> newbie, it was missing a

Re: ksh completion for [, :, $

2011-02-05 Thread Nick Guenther
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Alexander Polakov wrote: > Hi there, > > I sent this diff to bugs@ some time ago but haven't got any replies. > Probably tech@ is a better place for it. > > The problem is known as bz#6006/user. > > The fix is taken from mksh (rev.1.4 for [ and rev.1.184 for others)

Re: cksum(1) patch

2009-05-13 Thread Nick Guenther
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Hyjial Irldar wrote: > > 2009/5/11 Peter J. Philipp : >> Hi, >> >> I did some research on different operating systems regarding checksumming and >> found that solaris had a nice option called "digest -l" which prints the >> available algorithms and exits. B I wrote

Re: Small patch for ftpd to prevent deleting files.

2009-11-10 Thread Nick Guenther
On 11/10/09, Aristotelis wrote: > Hello all, > > I was trying to setup a backup server for a number of machines, and for > a number of reasons ftp was choosen as the underlying tranfer protocol. > Since in this backup server from a ftp point of view I wanted to make > the files "immutable",

Re: Small patch for ftpd to prevent deleting files.

2009-11-12 Thread Nick Guenther
On 11/12/09, Aristotelis wrote: > Bryan wrote: > > > > Couldn't you just have the directory owned by another person, but make > > the owner and the user be part of the same group, and make the > > directory group writable? The owner can delete, having the sticky > > bit, but users in the group ca

Out of date LKM examples

2009-11-13 Thread Nick Guenther
the examples in /usr/share/lkm are just a bit out of date (this is on 4.6-RELEASE) $ pwd /usr/share/lkm/syscall $ sudo make ===> module cc -O2 -pipe -D_KERNEL -I/sys -c newsyscall.c newsyscall.c: In function `newsyscall': newsyscall.c:109: error: syntax error before '}' token *** Error code 1 S

fts(3) typo

2009-11-25 Thread Nick Guenther
fts(3) says in the intro: It is possible to walk the hierarchy ``logically'' (ignoring symbolic links) or physically (visiting symbolic links), order the walk of the hi- erarchy, or prune and/or re-visit portions of the hierarchy. Which struck me as backwards. And indeed later: