Re: problem with updatedb

2006-03-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Gabriel Petit N. wrote: > I'm trying to updatedb but always says: "updatedb: new database would be > empty" > I'm using debian from a knoppix hd installation, kernel 2.6.15.2 (it > happens with any kernel). Thank you for your report. Note that Knoppix is not really Debian. It has a basis in Deb

Re: bug in FIND: argument list too damn long using -exec chmod 440 {} +

2006-03-27 Thread Bob Proulx
D Antryg M Revok wrote: > you /probably/ don't care, since it's been "good enough" for the GNU > tradition ( to be arbitrary and broken ) for years, but incompetence is > incompentence. > > If I rig my work to abuse all into obedience, everyone has the right to > call-me on it, and some program

bug in FIND: argument list too damn long using -exec chmod 440 {} +

2006-03-27 Thread D Antryg M Revok
you /probably/ don't care, since it's been "good enough" for the GNU tradition ( to be arbitrary and broken ) for years, but incompetence is incompentence. If I rig my work to abuse all into obedience, everyone has the right to call-me on it, and some programmers have similar integrity-values.

find patch: allow -mode as synonym for -perm

2006-03-27 Thread Alan Iwi
Here's a tiny patch to allow "-mode" as a synonym for "-perm", just because it's such an obvious thing for people to try to call it, particularly because several of the other options resemble the names of the corresponding stat() elements (-uid, -gid, -mtime, -ctime, -atime). In principle this

cpio doesn't follow umask

2006-03-27 Thread David Cifer
Hello! In bash, when I'm running the following command: find . -name "*.hh"| cpio -pmd ../bashhh/bug all my directories are generated, with drwx-- rigths, instead of: drwxr-wr-w. My umask is set to 0022 If I use: find . | cpio -pmd ../bash/bug bash and bug directories are created with drwx-

problem with updatedb

2006-03-27 Thread Gabriel Petit N.
Hello, I'm trying to updatedb but always says: "updatedb: new database would be empty" I'm using debian from a knoppix hd installation, kernel 2.6.15.2 (it happens with any kernel). My locatedb is supposed to be /var/cache/locate/locatedb because locate says: "locate: atención: la base de datos