Re: Time sync

Fred . wrote: > Why is there no 'time synchronization' feature in the 'date' software > that comes with GNU Coreutils? Tasks such as that require a long running deamon process to keep the system in step with the outside world. The date command is a simple run and exit command. It is not designed

Time sync

Why is there no 'time synchronization' feature in the 'date' software that comes with GNU Coreutils? It would be nice to be able to sync the date with remote Internet time servers. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.o

Re: chown should catch null owner:group

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2/15/2008 4:29 PM: | P> Is this just an academic worry, or were you really bitten by it? | | Yes. About once a year I do chown -R . file, thinking that -R meant | recursive, oops, I mean "reference"... never expecting

Re: "mkdir -p" new child dirs don't inherit default POSIX ACLs properly

The only difference between the two traces is that "mkdir acl-test/mkdir" does this: mkdir("acl-test/mkdir", 0777) whereas "mkdir -p acl-test/mkdir" does the equivalent of this: umask (0) mkdir("acl-test/mkdir-p", 0755) Since your initial umask is 022 these two sequences of system calls s

Re: chown should catch null owner:group

P> Is this just an academic worry, or were you really bitten by it? Yes. About once a year I do chown -R . file, thinking that -R meant recursive, oops, I mean "reference"... never expecting it to "work if it doesn't work", as with most commands, if it doesn't complain, then it must have worked, a

Re: Join Command

Tarek Hassan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am wondering what the reason behind > this restriction is. Because nobody has yet implemented joining on numeric fields. It's been proposed, and it's a good suggestion. Basically, "join" should be able to mimic "sort"'s comparisons. Can you help imp

Re: chown should catch null owner:group

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Please don't let me get away with > # chown : file... Is this just an academic worry, or were you really bitten by it? There is some advantage in shell-script programming to having chown be orthogonal. ___ Bug-coreutils mai

Re: chown should catch null owner:group

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please don't let me get away with # chown : file... # chown -R : file... # chown . file... # chown -R . file... without raising an error. "The user thought -R meant --reference. He returned on Monday to find a pink slip on his desk as the boss was not able to access the p

Re: [PATCH] ls --group-directories-first: symlinks to dirs are dirs too

Linda Walsh wrote: It would be inconsistent with the proprietary OS's behavior after which the option was modeled. Is that logical? Believe me, I understand wanting to see symlinks to dirs grouped with dirs, but this isn't how it's done in explorer and doesn't seem consistent. I wouldn

chown should catch null owner:group

Please don't let me get away with # chown : file... # chown -R : file... # chown . file... # chown -R . file... without raising an error. "The user thought -R meant --reference. He returned on Monday to find a pink slip on his desk as the boss was not able to access the presentation." ___