-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/08 09:33, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:19:49 -0500 > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This should be in an FAQ somewhere. I see it about once a year. >> Presumably the OP has just started in Lenny or he would have seen it >> in Etch, Sarge, Woody, Potato... Probably back to either 4.3 BSD or >> the origional UNIX. > > I guess it just depends on whether you need to use it or not. I've > been using Linux of various flavours for about seven years and never > even noticed this command before this post! :o)
I first noticed it back in the Mandrake 7.0 days. Year 2002, or maybe 2001. Freaked me out, too. > Ah well... > > /me wonders just how much more he has to learn before he thinks that he > knows a reasonable amount about Linux... Very few people are true, complete *ix gurus anymore... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHsHKYS9HxQb37XmcRApfwAKCYAqjAvx3AyS/nPwouTX/5d8qjvACfTDqK 78wK+uTG4ycb9cEpHn6vt/k= =BHYA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]