Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

On Tuesday 22 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were > > moved, upgraded, removed. > > > > How

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

Kushal Kumaran([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 5/23/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Mike McClain([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > >> <> > >> If these leftovers are due to packages removed but not purged, this > >> will tell you: > >> grep -B1 "S

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

On 5/23/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike McClain([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Tue, 22 May 2007, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > > somewhere along the line but were never clea

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

Mike McClain([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Tue, 22 May 2007, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved, > > upgraded, remove

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

Mike McClain wrote: [...] > > If these leftovers are due to packages removed but not purged, this > will tell you: > grep -B1 "Status: deinstall ok config-files" /var/lib/dpkg/status \ > | grep "Pac" | cut -d" " -f2 > and > for f in $( the above line ); do dpkg -P $f; done > will cl

re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

On Tue, 22 May 2007, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved, > upgraded, removed. > > How does one clean up this mess conveniently? If these left

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:49:18PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved, > upgraded, removed. > > How does one clean up this mess conveniently? > I don't kn

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:16:26 +0100 Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > The 'symlinks' package can do a search-and-destroy of dangling symlinks > for you. The 'cruft' package can identify missing alternatives. Thanks. > Liam Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via se

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

On Tue, 22 May 2007 09:47:49 -0400 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 12:49:18 +0300 > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

On Tue, 22 May 2007 09:47:49 -0400 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 12:49:18 +0300 > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got > > set somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs > > w

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

On Tue, 22 May 2007 12:49:18 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved, > upgraded, removed. > > How does one clean up this mess conveniently?

Re: Cleaning up alternatives

David Baron wrote the following on 30.01.2007 17:38: > My /etc/alternatives directory is chock full of dangling symlinks. > > Is there any neat way of servicing this or must I manually rm each one? $ man update-alternatives HTH Thilo -- gpg key: 0x4A411E09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: cleaning up audio recording

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:27:41 -0700 John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used the KRec tool in KDE to transfer the audio. I was looking at the > artsbuilder routines and it appears like you can do some signal processing > with this tool. ] I haven't played with artsbuilder. Seems to me t

Re: cleaning up audio recording

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 01:27:41PM -0700, John Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I have managed to transfer some tape recordings to my computer. The > recordings are from a seminar speaker. There is a great deal of noise on the > recordings both from the audio equipment and from general background nois

Re: cleaning up audio recording

Hi everybody, On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:32:21PM -0700, Travis Crook wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:27:41 -0700 > John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have managed to transfer some tape recordings to my computer. The > > recordings are from a seminar speaker. There is

Re: cleaning up audio recording

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:27:41 -0700 John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have managed to transfer some tape recordings to my computer. The > recordings are from a seminar speaker. There is a great deal of > noise on the recordings both from the audio equipment and from > general

Re: Cleaning Up

On Tuesday 18 May 2004 20:17, Edwards, Thomas wrote: > Nope, still getting the mail. Well, I know nothing of the technicalities, just quoting my experience. Still, it sounds as though you should follow up. You did get the second confirmation that the cancellation had been actioned? I recolle

Re: Cleaning Up

Incoming from Edwards, Thomas: > [someone]: > > Does anyone ever take instructions like this one seriously? > > I did want to point out the part at the bottom about erasing the email > then notifying you have it. > > Nice huh? If you'll post the email address of the fool lawyer who forced this

RE: Cleaning Up

Nope, still getting the mail. I did want to point out the part at the bottom about erasing the email then notifying you have it. Nice huh? -Original Message- From: richard lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 5:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cleaning

Re: Cleaning Up

On Tuesday 18 May 2004 14:33, Edwards, Thomas wrote: > I am moving onto a new job and will be subscribing to this list > after I move next week. However in the meantime I am trying to > unsubscribe from this list for my current employer. I have > attempted to remove myself from the automated > in

Re: Cleaning up mail headers?

stan wrote: Before I emabrk on a programing excersise to build a fliter to strip off the prior headers before shping the messages on into corporate land, I thought I would ask if there was already a tool to do this? I don't believe there is. Though it almost sounds like it might be a very sim

Re: Cleaning up mail headers?

On Monday 08 March 2004 15:21, stan shoved this in my mailbox: > Before I emabrk on a programing excersise to build a fliter to strip off > the prior headers before shping the messages on into corporate land, I > thought I would ask if there was already a tool to do this? Sounds like a perl job to

Re: cleaning up messy capitalization to transfer a web page from wintoes

On July 8, 2003 11:24 pm, K S Sreeram wrote: > Check out this page: > > http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/win2lin.html > > Looks like it has what you need This script would be great, except that it doesn't actually work. I first got an error because the end of one line was missing a \. Then it ran

Re: cleaning up messy capitalization to transfer a web page fromwintoes

Check out this page: http://linuxvm.org/Info/HOWTOs/win2lin.html Looks like it has what you need Regards On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 22:42, Levi Waldron wrote: > I'm transferring a web page from a wintoes webserver to Debian, and all the > capitalizations are inconsistent between the hyperrefs and

Re: cleaning up a system

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: martin> there's cruft, but it's too complicated and while i should martin> configure it in the long run, for now i have thought of martin> something like the following, which ca

Re: cleaning up a system

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:57:32PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > i took the output of a `find /` and deleted all lines corresponding to > inodes in the above special directories (find has no exclude!!! > wishlist!), Sure it does. Use something like 'find -o -print'. -- Colin Watson

Re: cleaning up a system

martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'd like to remove all files that debian didn't install, obviously > ignoring places like /home, /var, /tmp, /usr/local, /dev (any other > suggestions i have overlooked?)? > > there's cruft, but it's too complicated and while i should configure it > i

Re: cleaning up lost+found

Hey list, problem solved, and this is the trick what Peter Galbraith sent me: cr-Srw-r--1 2540229706115, 58 Oct 9 1999 fontsmpl.sty debugfs -w -R "rm /lost+found/bad_device/fontsmpl.sty" /dev/hda1 Thanks to all for all your help!

Re: cleaning up lost+found

Once upon a time, when I was working with UNIX version 7, I had a case where I could not clean up a disk using fsck. I used a program called (as I remember) 'clri' to wipe out the inode, then did an fsck to clean up the "orphans" that I had created. 'clri' doesn't exist anymore, that I know of (f

Re: cleaning up lost+found

"Petr [Dingo] Dvorak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Lehel Bernadt wrote: > > LB> On 26-Jul-2000 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > -- snip -- > > OM> in /home/lost+found that I can't seems to remove. Not even as root! > > -- snip -- > > LB> They probably have the immutable attri

RE: cleaning up lost+found

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Lehel Bernadt wrote: LB> On 26-Jul-2000 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: -- snip -- OM> in /home/lost+found that I can't seems to remove. Not even as root! -- snip -- LB> They probably have the immutable attribute set. Remove it with chattr. I have the same problem, mine happened

RE: cleaning up lost+found

On 26-Jul-2000 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Debians, > > I goofed up a little while ago and connected two SCSI devices with the > same ID. I've cleaned up the mess, but now I have a number of files > in /home/lost+found that I can't seems to remove. Not even as root! > > Typical output of ls -l on

Re: cleaning up

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Zachary DeAquila wrote: > can I remove the 'base' package? it claims to be obsolete, and contains > mostly /dev/* and the root dir structure... If it contains files in /dev/*, it is better not to remove it... Devices are now created by the

Re: cleaning up bad configuration

The creative juices that flow while under the influence always look really bad the next day. :-) You are interested in the following: /etc/ppp <--- directory /etc/ppp.chatscript /etc/ppp.options_out Also; if in your state you thought it would be a good time to recompile your kernel, make sure y

Re: cleaning up bad configuration

On Fri, 8 May 1998, Thomas J. Malloy wrote: > Lets suppose I go out to pub one night and come reeling home after 8 or 9 > pints of stout. Now when I get home I decide this would be fine time to > make some configuration changes on my system. ( in this particular case it > was changing the ppp set

Re: cleaning up kernel source

What I usually delete is all the alpha/spark/m68k etc stuff that is never going to b used on my 486 system. This should cut down a little on the size. However, if you run a patch on the kerenl, some parts might say that some files are missing, you should just tell patch to skip those files,

Re: cleaning up kernel source

On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > "David Morris": > > do I want to leave something hanging around /usr/src/linux? > > Except possibly the documentation, no. Debian distributes the header > files as part of the libc5 package. So that's what's been going on. What I've been doing is f

Re: cleaning up kernel source

Hi, >>"David" == David Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> OK, I downloaded the source for the 2.0.24 kernel and compiled David> a custom kernel yesterday. And now I have the tree leftover David> taking up 30M on my hard drive. And I was wondering what I can David> clean up to free up the s

Re: cleaning up kernel source

[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] "David Morris": > do I want to leave something hanging around /usr/src/linux? Except possibly the documentation, no. Debian distributes the header files as part of the libc5 package. -- Please read

Re: cleaning up kernel source

On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, David Morris wrote: > OK, I downloaded the source for the 2.0.24 kernel and compiled a custom > kernel > yesterday. And now I have the tree leftover taking up 30M on my hard drive. > And I was wondering what I can clean up to free up the space. > > I am tempted to rm -r the