Stephane Bortzmeyer schrieb: > > On Saturday 4 September 1999, at 11 h 12, the keyboard of Werner Heuser > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > the 'dpkg-divert' mechanism. It restored the former > > 'update' package without any problems. > > Even better: if you upgrade the original "update" while mobile-update is > installed, it upgrades the copy and, when you remove mobile-update, the > upgraded copy is used. That's one of the thing that make me say that Debian is > much easier to use than any other Linux distribution (as long as you rely on > facts, not on often-repeated marketing speeches). Should be a new slogan: "Debian Is Easy!" ... > > - /usr/doc/update is empty and /usr/doc/mobile-update is nearly empty > > The Web page is referenced in /usr/doc/mobile-update/README.Debian. I'm not > responsible for the "update" package. > > Any other question should be directed to the upstream authors. Sorry, Stephane I didn't want to bother you. I wanted to make clear that I have tried to read before asking questions. ...
Thank you for your useful information. -werner- BTW: I have installed a similar program 'noflusd', too. This is also available as *.deb at http://www.tuebingen.linux.de/kobras/noflushd/ >From 'man noflushd' ... Description noflushd monitors disk activity and spins down disks that have been idle for more than <timeout> seconds. noflushd actually used to live in some versions of bdflush, but since kernel version 2.2.11, bdflush has been completely replaced by the kernel-level kupdate daemon. When noflushd decides to spin down an idle disk, it syncs the filesystems, calls the external skript /sbin/noflushd- spindown that handles the actual spindown and stops kup- date, so all writes to block devices are suspended. Spinup happens on the first read request to the disk. noflushd then calls the external skript /sbin/noflushd-spinup that handles spinup if necessary and restarts kupdate. Sending signal 10 (SIGUSR1) to noflushd forces the daemon to spin down disks immediately. IMPORTANT: noflushd is mainly intended for use on note- books and currently can sensibly handle only one hard disk. Per default, it monitors /dev/hda. ... -- Werner Heuser | There is no time, /~~ LiLAC - Linux with Laptop Computers | ... to make war ... /~~~ Berlin, Germany | -Lou Reed- /~~~~ T. +49 30 349 53 86 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.snafu.de/~wehe/index_li.html
