Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-06-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 08:36:13PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:50:00PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > >>Joey Hess wrote: > Any ideas? I am not even allowed to move or delete the file via the > shell. > > >>>You have a cor

Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-06-10 Thread Nick Lidakis
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:50:00PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Any ideas? I am not even allowed to move or delete the file via the shell. You have a corrupted filesystem. Suggest going to single user mode and fscking. Th

Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-05-30 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:50:00PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > >>Any ideas? I am not even allowed to move or delete the file via the shell. > > > >You have a corrupted filesystem. Suggest going to single user mode and > >fscking. > > > Thanks. That did the trick. Even though

Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-05-30 Thread Nick Lidakis
Joey Hess wrote: nick lidakis wrote: I'm having trouble upgrading my Debian Sid laptop after attempting dselect install. Dselect quits with this error: Preparing to replace sed 4.1.5-1 (using .../archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement sed ... dpkg: error processing /var/

Re: [OT] Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-05-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-05-22 10:47:15, schrieb Nyizsnyik Ferenc: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:57:52 -0400 > nick lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > thinkpad:/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES# ls -alt sed.mo > > c---rwxrwx 5389 2484475149 353247318 247, 62 Dec 31 1969 sed.mo > > So sed is one of the oldest Unix c

Re: [OT] Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-05-22 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. Nyizsnyik Ferenc, 22.05.2007 10:47: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:57:52 -0400 > nick lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Also, the file sed.mo has a date of 1969. ls -alt sed.mo reveals: >> >> thinkpad:/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES# ls -alt sed.mo >> c---rwxrwx 5389 2484475149 353247318 247, 6

[OT] Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-05-22 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:57:52 -0400 nick lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having trouble upgrading my Debian Sid laptop after attempting > dselect install. Dselect quits with this error: > > Preparing to replace sed 4.1.5-1 (using > /archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking rep

Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-05-21 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Mon, 21 May 2007, nick lidakis wrote: > I'm having trouble upgrading my Debian Sid laptop after attempting > dselect install. Dselect quits with this error: > > Preparing to replace sed 4.1.5-1 (using > .../archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement sed ... > dpkg: error proc

Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-05-21 Thread Joey Hess
nick lidakis wrote: > I'm having trouble upgrading my Debian Sid laptop after attempting > dselect install. Dselect quits with this error: > > Preparing to replace sed 4.1.5-1 (using > .../archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement sed ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/

sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-05-21 Thread nick lidakis
I'm having trouble upgrading my Debian Sid laptop after attempting dselect install. Dselect quits with this error: Preparing to replace sed 4.1.5-1 (using .../archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement sed ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/sed_4.1.5-2_i386.deb (

ntfs-3g or fuse: no file date updates

2007-02-28 Thread Kriauciukas, Valentinas
Problem: when saving files from within OpenOffice or attachements from Mozilla (Iceape Mailnews) over existing files in ntfs-3g disk, the old file dates stay unchanged. Does anybody met this kind of problem? The directory tree was initially created in ext3, then moved to ntfs-3g disk, some work

Re: gzip based on file date

2000-05-02 Thread Pat Mahoney
I know find is able to do this (find files based on date, and then send them to gzip). Sorry, I don't know the exact commands, check the man page, but something like this: touch -t 0420 datefile ; gzip `find /whatever -newer datefile` ; rm -f datefile should gzip all files that were modified

Re: gzip based on file date

2000-04-30 Thread Sven Burgener
Hello Lance Have a look at bash's built-in functions. I suggest using "test". I qoute from the bash manual page: file1 -nt file2 True if file1 is newer (according to modifi­ cation date) than file2. file1 -ot file2

gzip based on file date

2000-04-30 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I wish to gzip a numbe of files based on the date they were created. I assume I would use ls and gzip. Are these the commands I should use or is there an easier way? Lance

Re: File date

1999-03-22 Thread Kirk Hogenson
> How to change the date of a file. > For example, due to an error : > > -rw--- 1 sami sami 9641 Mar 24 1999 inbox > > but my system's date is now : > > Mon Mar 22 20:24:58 CET 1999 Try "touch inbox". Under normal circumstances, that will bring an existing file's timestam

File date

1999-03-22 Thread Sami Dalouche
How to change the date of a file. For example, due to an error : -rw--- 1 sami sami 9641 Mar 24 1999 inbox but my system's date is now : Mon Mar 22 20:24:58 CET 1999 And it causes mutt to think there is always new mail... -- // -oOo- -oOo --