Re: Hard links

1998-03-26 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Topi Miettinen wrote: > - It's hard to notice hard links, they look exactly like normal files > (AFAIK, there are no tools exept ls -li and find -inum). Many programs > support symbolic links, including web/ftp servers. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/kooij> $ ls -l /bin/*grep -rwxr-

Re: Hard links

1998-03-26 Thread Rob Browning
Topi Miettinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Locating hard links with only ls -li or find -inum is inhuman task, > whereas any graphical file browser can easily show symlinks with > different icon, for example (I don't use them, so I don't know > whether they actually do so). When do you need to

Re: Hard links

1998-03-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Topi" == Topi Miettinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Topi> Ok, which do you think is more common operation, deleting Topi> executables or copying them? Which would some sysadmin consider Topi> a safe thing to do? Being a less common (but still far from rare) operation should not l

Re: Hard links

1998-03-26 Thread Joey Hess
Topi Miettinen wrote: > Some packages use hard links to provide different names for single > executable. I think this practice is at least questionable: > > - It's hard to notice hard links, they look exactly like normal files > (AFAIK, there are no tools exept ls -li and find -inum). Many program

Re: CD Splitting

1998-03-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Ian Jackson wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe writes ("CD Splitting"): > ... > > 2a - No essential or immediate configure package depends on a package > >in a lower section. > > What is an `immediate configure' package ? No Essential package may > depend on anything that i

Re: Bug#19691: lprng: include a PATH= statement in the init.d script

1998-03-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Adam P. Harris writes ("Re: Bug#19691: lprng: include a PATH= statement in the init.d script "): ... > Hmm. I kinda agree. I don't think init scripts should mess with PATH. > Unless they have unique requirements. I think generally the init scripts > should assume that path is set correctly. I

Re: CD Splitting

1998-03-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Jason Gunthorpe writes ("CD Splitting"): ... > 2a - No essential or immediate configure package depends on a package >in a lower section. What is an `immediate configure' package ? No Essential package may depend on anything that isn't Required. (I don't know if this is stated anywhere