Re: Duplicate messages on this list

1997-12-09 Thread Carl Mummert
uot;debain-foo..." ? noop : (From == Sender || Sender == "") ? Sender = from, from = reply-to, reply-to = debain-foo : x-old-sender = sender, sender = from, from = reply-to, reply-to = debain-foo ) Now, the questions are, Can we do this? and Do we wan

Re: less: extra entries for lesspipe

1998-04-22 Thread Carl Mummert
Joey Hess wrote: > > > > This seems like a bad idea. "strings" is not the obvious information > > to provide about an executable. (Consider size, objdump, od, hexdump, > > et cetera). > > > > I only use "strings" when I pipe through grep. When I use less it's > > just as easy to search the fi

Re: less: extra entries for lesspipe

1998-04-22 Thread Carl Mummert
David Welton wrote: > One of the things I like about Linux, and Unix in general, is that it > doesn't try to be smart where you don't expect it to. But when you say, 'less binfile', what do you expect it to do? I had thought that the idea of lesspipe is to have less give you more useful informa

Re: less: extra entries for lesspipe

1998-04-22 Thread Carl Mummert
David Welton wrote: > zless, so, why not build on that and just use a different name. Or is > there something that I am missing because of my late entry into the > discussion (sorry)? Background: when 'less' runs, it looks for an environment var called "LESSOPEN" If it finds one, it uses the valu

Re: less: extra entries for lesspipe

1998-04-24 Thread Carl Mummert
Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: > > > I am bemoaning the fact that lesspipe is not directly usable > > by me anymore, since all the stuff got added to it. > > I'm open to suggestions on how to change it so that everybody is > happy... > > What about an environment variable about what items t

Adding files to dpkg AND cruft (was Re: consistency check)

1998-04-26 Thread Carl Mummert
Fabien Ninoles wrote: > That's the reason why I would like to see a > > dpkg --{remove,add}-files [--package ] > > option to dpkg. I think it's simple to implement to the package .list file> and can ease the task for securing local files > from dpkg in addition > to help checking the system.

policy suggestion (seeking discussion)

1998-04-26 Thread Carl Mummert
Don't flame me for this if it is obviously wrong.. it doesn't SEEM so to me... Question: when does dpkg write the /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list ??? Situation: Package X has something in the post-inst script which the developer knows will create file F, which dpkg will not

Re: fetchmail/procmail was: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-03 Thread Carl Mummert
The procmail documentation makes it clear that, if you have a 'real' mda which hands mail off to procmail via .forward, then if procmail fails it will leave the message enqueued in the mta. So if disk space is not a problem, install smail or sendmail along with procmail, and try that. Carl [EMAI