Why people use `find ... |env -i xargs rm -f' instead of `find ...|xargs rm -f'?

Hi, Dear all I often find this line in shell scripts: find ... |env -i xargs rm -f Why people want to clean the environment variables before rm files? Has this line find ...| xargs rm -f any harm? Thanks in advance. Best regards, dai Yuwen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

.bash_profile and X

odmap gnome-terminal & exec fvwm #end Any idea? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Dai Yuwen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

sean finney wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:00:20PM +0800, Dai Yuwen wrote: Conclusion: To use this USB flash disk, just install these 3 modules: sg usb-storage usb-uhci excellent :) question: if you plug yours in and unplug it, and then plug it in again, is it still /dev/sda? every

Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

sean finney wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:00:20PM +0800, Dai Yuwen wrote: Conclusion: To use this USB flash disk, just install these 3 modules: sg usb-storage usb-uhci excellent :) question: if you plug yours in and unplug it, and then plug it in again, is it still /dev/sda? every

Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

then plug it in, and take a look at whatever it says > for clues > > > hth > sean > best regards, Dai yuwen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

e: 3. cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached device: none I use the stock kernel image of debian: uname -r 2.4.18-686 I also found some info that said kernel 2.4.18 had some problem in USB. Is that true? If yes, I'll have to compile another version of Linux kernel. Any idea? Thanks in advance. be

xmms conflics with esd?

Hi, Dear All I find xmms conflics with esd. Unless I kill esd can xmms play MP3s. I use woody and gnome1.4. Any advise? Best regards, Dai Yuwen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get

nate wrote: Richard Beri said: >When I install a program via apt-get, and it installs other support >packages along with it, and then I choose to remove this program AND the >packages that came with it. Is there anyway to automate the >removal of this program and its packages instead of removi

Re: samba: cannot auto umount CD-ROM

alan brown wrote: I was having the same problem and found that postexec is not an effective way to unmount removable media as it doesn't get called until long after you might expect it to (and I've heard that setting the timeout hasn't been reliable for some people either). My understanding is t

samba: cannot auto umount CD-ROM

whole connection to the samba server? To eject the cd-rom, I have to kill the samba process that uses /cdrom. Very inconvenient. Any solutions? samba: 2.2.3a-12 on Woody Best regards, Dai Yuwen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

smtp of ISP needs passwd,how to setup exim?

Hi, all I want to setup exim use my ISP's smtp server as a smart host. But this smtp server needs user name and password. How do I use exim this way? Thank you in advance. Best regards, Dai Yuwen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: nature of a boot loader

really not much trouble at all but that's the ONLY thing that I can see where this becomes a problem. Yes. It's very easy to use GRUB. In fact I also have GRUB work this way. Let me know if this helps at all. I'm always happy to help linux users. bp Thank you very much. D

Re: LILO on the second disk loaded by GRUB

Shyamal Prasad wrote: "Dai" == Dai Yuwen writes: Dai> It seems GRUB had found lilo on /dev/hdd7. But error message Dai> was displayed: L 01 01 ... Please read the docs in /usr/share/doc/lilo. >From Manual.txt.gz L ... The first stage boot loader has been

Re: LILO on the second disk loaded by GRUB

David Z Maze wrote: Dai Yuwen writes: >Bruce Park wrote: > > >>Dai, >> >>I'm confused to why you aren't just using one boot loader to control >>everything. Can you tell me why you are using two boot loaders? >> > >My reason is here: >

Re: LILO on the second disk loaded by GRUB

Bruce Park wrote: Dai, I'm confused to why you aren't just using one boot loader to control everything. Can you tell me why you are using two boot loaders? My reason is here: > Now I put them together. My intention is: let GRUB load the lilos on > the second hard disk. I know I can load b

LILO on the second disk loaded by GRUB

ist: root (hd1, 6) (my lilo is on /dev/hdd7) chainloader +1 It seems GRUB had found lilo on /dev/hdd7. But error message was displayed: L 01 01 ... How do I configure GRUB and LILO in this situation? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Dai Yuwen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Lilo on the second disk loaded by Grub

B's menu.list: root (hd1, 6) (my lilo is on /dev/hdd7) chainloader +1 It seems GRUB had found lilo on /dev/hdd7. But error message was displayed: L 01 01 ... How do I configure GRUB and LILO in this situation? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Dai Yuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNS