all around trouble

2008-12-16 Thread Einar Schlereth
Hi! Sorry, but I can't name the trouble. I got it when saving some documents. I scanned for virus but couldn't find none. The desktop started suddenly racing from left to right or from right to left or from up downwards, starting programs that I didn't want or the PC was simply shut down or hangin

HACKING doc git 3rd possiblity

2008-12-16 Thread jidanni
In HACKING If you have made *no* changes: git pull If you *have* made changes and committed them to "master", do this: git fetch git rebase origin OK, but add If you *have* made changes but *have not* committed them to "master", do this: As to what "this" should

problem finding mktemp in info file

2008-12-16 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, "man mktemp" points me to info coreutils 'mktemp invocation' but no such node exists. The particular question was what does the following mean: -t interpret TEMPLATE as a single file name component, relative to a directory: $TMPDIR, if set; els

Re: all around trouble

2008-12-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Einar Schlereth on 12/16/2008 1:02 AM: Hello Einar, > I had just installed the new Ubuntu 8.04.1 and what me struck immidiatly > that was that the little "clock" was always there and turning around. After recent Ubuntu releases there ha

Re: problem finding mktemp in info file

2008-12-16 Thread Andreas Schwab
Stepan Kasal writes: > What shall I do instead of "mktemp -t foo.XX"? $ mktemp --tmpdir foo.XX Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, sch...@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4

Re: problem finding mktemp in info file

2008-12-16 Thread Pádraig Brady
Stepan Kasal wrote: > Hello, > "man mktemp" points me to > info coreutils 'mktemp invocation' > but no such node exists. True, that should be addressed. The info you require is here: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils I guess chunks of that should be added to info. It's

Add concurrent I/O support to gnu dd

2008-12-16 Thread Matt Harden
I'd like to suggest adding the ability to dd(1) to open the file in concurrent I/O mode. This applies only to AIX systems and the JFS2 filesystem. I had a need to do this and was able to do it easily thanks to the design of coreutils. As a sysadmin sometimes you have to open a file in CIO mode b