Hi all, it's me again. First off thanks for the numerous replies to my chmodding question :)
Is there a way to make dpkg give me a list (output) of ALL the packages (installed and not installed) along with their descriptions? Even just the short one-liner descriptions? The reason I'm asking is because occasionally I want to search for some type of package by a keyword but I think that the "/" command in dselect only searches the package filename. I wanted to do something like % dpkg --print-all-descriptions-etc | grep -i "shadow" or something... Maybe I could go to the /var/lib/usr/local/bin/hoopdeha/dpkg/debian/wherever and do a grep -i "shadow" **/* ? I dunno... Oh, that reminds me of another question, but I'll keep it civilized for now :) ............... Ok, here's another question about shadow.. I got the following files: shadow-passwd_960810-1_i386.deb shadow-login_960810-1_i386.deb shadow-su_960810-1_i386.deb and used dpkg to install them, and everything works fine, but will I ever need /etc/adduser.conf or /usr/sbin/adduser or /usr/sbin/addgroup again? Or should I just delete them? Shadow came with replacements for all of these, like useradd and groupadd etc, right? (I can't remember where to find a list of all the files those packages made...) ............... Here's a quick question: Why is my /home g+s staff? drwxrwsr-x 4 root staff 1024 Mar 19 23:05 /home/ ............... Here's another quick question: I have an Iomega Zip drive, and occasionally I get the message: sda: Write Protect is off sda: sda4 when mounting. Is there a command out there somewhere to write protect/unprotect disks? And why is it sda4 instead of sda1? (Ooops, I guess that's two questions!) ............... Oh, I'd just like to mention that setting up tty-snoops to automatically snoop ttyp1 on tty7 (virtual console 7) all the way through ttyp6/tty12 is REALLY handy! I can spy on peoples with a press of a buttons! :) ............... One of the main reasons I'm using zsh is because I love it's command completion and expansion behaviour, for example, **/* for every directory and subdirectory and everything within. I often use grep "something" **/*. My question is, is there a way to either remove the actual directories from the listing, or mute the "grep: blah: Is a directory" message? Or better yet, is there a program that will search my whole disk (or at least all the data in a directory tree) for a word(s)? Lately I've just been saying grep "something" **/* | more; so that all the grepped stuff will end up at the bottom and not mixed in with the "grep: blah: Is a directory" message. ............... Anyway, that's it for today.....Well, for this morning at least... Well untill I reboot, okay?? :) Thanks again everyone
