Re: Duplicate files in man directories

1997-01-22 Thread Vociferous Mole
On Jan 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Torrico) wrote: > I have a large number of duplicate files in various man directories. The > duplicates all have one date when I do an ls -l within a directory. What > must I do to remove the files with this date without removing the other > files in the directo

Re: Debian 1.2.3

1997-01-17 Thread Vociferous Mole
On Jan 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel S. Barclay) wrote: > > > Given that those files are moved (change in current release relative to > previous release), what happens if I re-install these packages? > > Will the old file be removed, or will I end up with two files? > (I don't know how much the

Upgrading to cron-3.0pl1-37

1997-01-17 Thread Vociferous Mole
Regarding the recently uploaded cron-3.0pl1-37, which should be showing up on the mirror sites RSN, Joey Hess found the following problem during an upgrade from -36.1: On Jan 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) wrote: (In Bug#6634: cron: can't upgrade cron while cron job is running) > Package: cron

Re: updating packages with dpkg

1997-01-16 Thread Vociferous Mole
On Jan 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Shand) wrote: > What I want is a way comparing what is currently installed (dpkg -l) with > what is available on my local mirror. > I believe the package you are looking for is dftp (not to be confused with dpkg-ftp). Steve Greenland -- The Mole - I think,

Re: cron is dying...

1997-01-15 Thread Vociferous Mole
On Jan 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Shand) wrote: > Hi, > > I know this has been dealt with before > > We're running cron 3.0pl1-32 on a debian 1.1 installation. Ocasionally > cron dies which is rather annoying. > [snip] > I have just upgraded to the latest verion on the FTP site cron 3.0pl1-

Re: Install questions

1997-01-04 Thread Vociferous Mole
On Jan 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terrence M. Brannon) wrote: > > - dselect > - can only search for package names, not sections. > - suggestion: allow search for sections Yes! Please! I kept meaning to ask for this. > - kinda slow: any way for it to omit all of the > "Skipping desel

Re: How come there is no `Reply to' field

1996-12-28 Thread Vociferous Mole
On Dec 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Hudon) wrote: > On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, Walter Tautz wrote: > > > I am curious as to why there is no `Reply to' field from this list? Is > > this a deliberate technique to decrease traffic. Just wondering... > > Because "Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" is evil. :

Re: cron

1996-12-20 Thread Vociferous Mole
On Dec 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vociferous Mole) wrote: > update-rc cron defaults That should be update-rc.d cron defaults Sorry, steve -- The Mole - I think, therefore I scream "Not only is God dead, but just try to find

Re: cron

1996-12-20 Thread Vociferous Mole
On Nov 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fundamental) wrote: > my crontabs wont run ...? > > i login as root, type crontab -e and they come up, but they dont run ... am > i doing something wrong? or is there another way of doing cronjobs on debian > 1.1 ? Nope, I screwed up the postinstall when I converted

Re: fork()ing and SIGKILL and SIGSTOP

1996-12-02 Thread Vociferous Mole
On Dec 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Heath) wrote: > I am writing a program that listens on several ports, using fork() to start > a separate thread for each port. I want to be able to kill each of the > child processes when the master parent terminates. I do not know how to > implement this. I hav