Re: Find e-mail address based on first and last name

Hi there On 23/05/2025 10:56, Joe wrote: On Thu, 22 May 2025 11:57:28 -0400 The Wanderer wrote: On 2025-05-22 at 10:53, Jan Claeys wrote: On Wed, 2025-05-21 at 15:16 +0100, Joe wrote: There was a time you could have emailed postmaster@ and asked that a message be forwarded to the per

Re: Find e-mail address based on first and last name

On Thu, 22 May 2025 11:57:28 -0400 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2025-05-22 at 10:53, Jan Claeys wrote: > > > On Wed, 2025-05-21 at 15:16 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > >> There was a time you could have emailed postmaster@ and > >> asked that a message be forwarded to the person, but I think now > >> fe

Re: Find e-mail address based on first and last name

On 2025-05-22, The Wanderer wrote: > > These days, I would be *surprised* if most mail-accepting domains *did* > have a postmaster address - and even more so if they actually had > someone monitoring it, or otherwise ensuring that mail sent to it didn't > just get dropped into the bit bucket. Cou

Re: Find e-mail address based on first and last name

On 2025-05-22 at 10:53, Jan Claeys wrote: > On Wed, 2025-05-21 at 15:16 +0100, Joe wrote: > >> There was a time you could have emailed postmaster@ and >> asked that a message be forwarded to the person, but I think now >> few domains actually have a postmaster user or alias. > > Any mailserver a

Re: Find e-mail address based on first and last name

On Wed, 2025-05-21 at 15:16 +0100, Joe wrote: > There was a time you could have emailed postmaster@ and asked > that a message be forwarded to the person, but I think now few > domains actually have a postmaster user or alias. Any mailserver accepting mail for a particular domain without having a

Re: Find e-mail address based on first and last name

On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM john doe wrote: > > Is there a way to find the correct e-mail address if you only have the > first and last name and the domain ((jane doe domain.TLD)? > > I know that it is possible to send e-mails to that domain I'm just > missing the correct e-mail for that spec

Re: Find e-mail address based on first and last name

On Wed, 21 May 2025 15:21:15 +0200 john doe wrote: > Hello all, > > Is there a way to find the correct e-mail address if you only have > the first and last name and the domain ((jane doe domain.TLD)? > > I know that it is possible to send e-mails to that domain I'm just > missing the correct e

Re: Find e-mail address based on first and last name

Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2025, 15:24:36 CEST schrieb Jonathan Dowland: > On Wed May 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM BST, john doe wrote: > > Is there a way to find the correct e-mail address if you only have the > > first and last name and the domain ((jane doe domain.TLD)? > > In general, no. You may try to use

Re: Find e-mail address based on first and last name

On 2025-05-21 at 09:24, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed May 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM BST, john doe wrote: > >> Is there a way to find the correct e-mail address if you only have >> the first and last name and the domain ((jane doe domain.TLD)? > > In general, no. The reason is that E-mail addresses

Re: Find e-mail address based on first and last name

On Wed May 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM BST, john doe wrote: Is there a way to find the correct e-mail address if you only have the first and last name and the domain ((jane doe domain.TLD)? In general, no. -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org 🔗

Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

On 2/10/24 16:07, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 02:58:24PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2024, 2:46 PM gene heskett wrote: Greetings; I have misplaced file someplace in /home/gene. its name is bpim5*shelf.scad Assuming that you are searching in the current

Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

Hello, On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 06:03:39PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On 2/10/24 15:55, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > find . -iname 'bpim5*shelf.scad' > > Thank you Greg, it worked and 4 more copies are under construction now, but > why is this not in the man page? Mind boggling. Why can Gene not lo

Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

Hello, On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 03:46:09PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > I have misplaced file someplace in /home/gene. > its name is bpim5*shelf.scad > As usual it outputs 100,000 filenames, none of which is the one I am looking > for. How in heck do you shut this thing up so it only spits out > /t

Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

On 2/10/24 15:55, Greg Wooledge wrote: find . -iname 'bpim5*shelf.scad' Thank you Greg, it worked and 4 more copies are under construction now, but why is this not in the man page? Mind boggling. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, bal

Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 02:58:24PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2024, 2:46 PM gene heskett wrote: > > > Greetings; > > > > I have misplaced file someplace in /home/gene. > > its name is bpim5*shelf.scad > > > > Assuming that you are searching in the current working directory

Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

On Sat, Feb 10, 2024, 2:46 PM gene heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > I have misplaced file someplace in /home/gene. > its name is bpim5*shelf.scad > Assuming that you are searching in the current working directory: find bpim* -print | grep 'shelf.scad' As usual it outputs 100,000 filenames, non

Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 03:46:09PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > I have misplaced file someplace in /home/gene. > its name is bpim5*shelf.scad > As usual it outputs 100,000 filenames, none of which is the one I am looking cd find . -iname 'bpim5*shelf.scad'

Re: find question

On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 12:25:03AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Except that from the man page, -delete implies -depth. Maybe that's a > GNUism; I don't know. Oh, maybe that's new? I'm not sure. Anyway, yeah, -delete is a GNUism. POSIX find doesn't have it at all. > That leaves the question: W

Re: find question

On 30/12/23 01:27, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 10:56:52PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: find $dir -mtime +7 -delete "$dir" should be quoted. Got it, thanks. Will that fail to delete higher directories, because the deletion of files updated the mtime? Or does it get all the

Re: find question

On Fri, Dec 29, 2023 at 10:56:52PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > find $dir -mtime +7 -delete "$dir" should be quoted. > Will that fail to delete higher directories, because the deletion of files > updated the mtime? > > Or does it get all the mtimes first, and use those? It doesn't delete dire

Re: Find packages from a specific maintainer

On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 08:33:19PM +0200, Rasmus MK wrote: Is it possible to search in the maintainer field with apt? If not, can I lookup this information somewhere else? The Debian QA site can provide you with a list. For Debian XMPP Maintainers:

Re: Find packages from a specific maintainer

Hello, On 2021-06-12 20:33, Rasmus MK wrote: > > Is it possible to search in the maintainer field with apt? If not, can I > lookup this > information somewhere else? I'm not sure about apt but you can check the tracker page for that package. It will give you the name of the maintainer a

Re: Find packages from a specific maintainer

* 2021-06-12 20:33:19+0200, Rasmus MK wrote: > When I run the command `apt show profanity` I can see that it is > maintained by "Debian XMPP Maintainers". I'm interested in what other > packages this maintainer/group maintains but don't understand how to > get hold of it. > > Is it possible to sea

Re: Find packages from a specific maintainer

On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 20:33:19 +0200 Rasmus MK wrote: Hello Rasmus, >Is it possible to search in the maintainer field with apt? If not, can IDK if that's possible but >I lookup this information somewhere else? ...look up any package the maintainers deal with (profanity in this case) at http

Re: Find packages from a specific maintainer

On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 08:33:19PM +0200, Rasmus MK wrote: > When I run the command `apt show profanity` I can see that it is > maintained by "Debian XMPP Maintainers". I'm interested in > what other packages this maintainer/group maintains First, I looked at /var/lib/dpkg/status -- and that's fin

Re: Find latest netinstall iso

Thanks, I get it. FYI: curl -sl ftp://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-cd/ | grep -m 1 -Po "[0-9.]{1,}(?=-amd64-netinst\.iso)" On 06.08.20 12:36, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 12:14:23PM +0200, basti wrote: >> Hello, >

Re: Find latest netinstall iso

Hi. On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 12:14:23PM +0200, basti wrote: > Hello, > I try to setup a service that build a headless netinstall iso. > Is there a way to find the latest version number? > > I think grep the https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ site is not the best > option. Will parsing [1]

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Thanks Bob for the pointer. Yes the patch works. I also saw your reply to the > bug report. Good idea. And the bug in apt-show-versions was fixed and uploaded and all is good now. And a correction for my previous message which mentioned Jessie. As far as I can see the

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

Thanks Bob for the pointer. Yes the patch works. I also saw your reply to the bug report. Good idea. -- Regards, jvp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.or

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

Chris Bannister wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I think everyone should be worried about removed but not purged > > packages too. Otherwise they are a source of lint that builds up on a > > system. > > apt-cache show cruft I had forgotten about cruft. I just tried it again after many years. It

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Note that apt-show-versions is not able to find installed packages > which are no longer available in the suite/release, e.g. on a > testing/sid system, the packages libtiff4 or xlockmore. Works in Wheezy. Wheezy$ apt-show-versions | grep xlockmore xlockmore 1:5.31-

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 04:36:06PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > I think everyone should be worried about removed but not purged > packages too. Otherwise they are a source of lint that builds up on a > system. apt-cache show cruft I believe that lint is a c code checker. :) -- "If you're not ca

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

Note that apt-show-versions is not able to find installed packages which are no longer available in the suite/release, e.g. on a testing/sid system, the packages libtiff4 or xlockmore. -- Regards, jvp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

Fredrik Jonson wrote: > Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote on 01/14/2015 06:25: > > > Fredrik Jonson wrote: > > > > I'm trying to find obsolete packages on a system that's been > > > > dist-upgraded. How would you [do that without using] aptitude? > > > > > > Try this: > > > > > > a

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote on 01/14/2015 06:25: > > Fredrik Jonson wrote: > > > I'm trying to find obsolete packages on a system that's been > > > dist-upgraded. How would you [do that without using] aptitude? > > > > Try this: > > > > apt-show-versions | grep -v uptodate > >

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

Hi, Bob Proulx wrote on 01/14/2015 06:25: > Fredrik Jonson wrote: >> Here's a small challenge. I'm trying to find obsolete or orphaned packages >> on a system that's been dist-upgraded. >> ... >> How would you accomplish that assuming you cannot use aptitude? > > Try this: > > apt-show-version

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

Bob Proulx wrote: > Try this: > >apt-show-versions | grep -v uptodate > > Or read my answer posted here Saturday: > >https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/01/msg00358.html Thanks, excellent. I'll try to improve the variety of my search phrases, and digging deeper in the archive

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

Fredrik Jonson wrote: > Here's a small challenge. I'm trying to find obsolete or orphaned packages > on a system that's been dist-upgraded. > ... > How would you accomplish that assuming you cannot use aptitude? Try this: apt-show-versions | grep -v uptodate Or read my answer posted here Satur

Re: find problem

Hello, 2014-11-12 12:40 GMT+02:00 Raffaele Morelli : > On 11/11/14 at 04:09pm, B. M. wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm struggling with a find problem. > > > > I want to combine find and par2create recursively in order to get the > > following done: > > > > Foreach file with a certain suffix (e.g. av

Re: find problem

On 11/11/14 at 04:09pm, B. M. wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm struggling with a find problem. > > I want to combine find and par2create recursively in order to get the > following done: > > Foreach file with a certain suffix (e.g. avi) do par2create for that > file in its directory, so e.g. > > I'm in

Re: find all installed packages from a specific release

On Du, 02 nov 14, 00:57:45, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > Thanks. This is useful and solves my first question. Oh, missed that one[1]. Aptitude, at least in interactive mode can do it, because it presents a "Security Updates" (or something like that) package group. One can just Shift-U on the

Re: find all installed packages from a specific release

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I think this should do it > > aptitude search '?narrow(?installed,?archive(oldstable))' > Thanks. This is useful and solves my first question. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

Re: find all installed packages from a specific release

On Sb, 01 nov 14, 18:12:35, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > Now, I want to retire the squeeze mirror. But before I do that I'd like to > find all the packages installed on my machine from this mirror. Then I can > decide whether I want to upgrade or delete or keep then as-is. Is there a > way to fi

Re: find out why a package was installed

On Friday 10 October 2014 14:31:26 Marius Gavrilescu wrote: > Rob Owens writes: > > Is there an apt command that will tell me why package X was installed? > > For instance, was it manually installed, or installed as a > > dependency/recommends of package Y? > > aptitude why I like to look (again

Re: find out why a package was installed

- Original Message - > From: "Marius Gavrilescu" > Rob Owens writes: > > > Is there an apt command that will tell me why package X was installed? > > For instance, was it manually installed, or installed as a > > dependency/recommends of package Y? > > aptitude why Thanks Marius and M

Re: find out why a package was installed

On 10/10/14 14:28, Rob Owens wrote: Is there an apt command that will tell me why package X was installed? For instance, was it manually installed, or installed as a dependency/recommends of package Y? aptitude why package-x will show you exactly one reason why package-x is installed. --

Re: find out why a package was installed

Rob Owens writes: > Is there an apt command that will tell me why package X was installed? > For instance, was it manually installed, or installed as a > dependency/recommends of package Y? aptitude why -- Marius Gavrilescu pgpikZUJbtMQu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: find

> find /backup -mtime +0 -delete Command worked. So 7 days than what do I do to delete old files. Example: find /backup -mtime +6 -delete ? Thanks... On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 24. September 2014, 17:29:22 schrieb Gokan Atmaca: >> Within a direc

Re: find

Am Mittwoch, 24. September 2014, 17:29:22 schrieb Gokan Atmaca: > Within a directory backup "tar.gz" files you want to delete older than 1 > day. > > I'm doing this as follows. But do not be. > > find /backup/ +1 -delete -mtime > > Can you help? find /backup -mtime +0 -delete find counts days

Re: find

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 05:40:08PM +0300, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > Indeed, will be as follows; > find /arsiv/backup/ -mtime +1 -delete Yes, it's important the delete comes after -mtime, otherwise it will be performed before the mtime check. You may also want a '-type f' or /arsiv/backup itself might

Re: find

- Original Message - > From: "Gokan Atmaca" > > Thanks for the correction. > > Indeed, will be as follows; > find /arsiv/backup/ -mtime +1 -delete > The +1 will get rounded up, according to the man page: File was last accessed n*24 hours ago. When find figures out how many 24-h

Re: find

Thanks for the correction. Indeed, will be as follows; find /arsiv/backup/ -mtime +1 -delete On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 5:37 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 09/24/2014 at 10:29 AM, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > >> Within a directory backup "tar.gz" files y

Re: find

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/24/2014 at 10:29 AM, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > Within a directory backup "tar.gz" files you want to delete older > than 1 day. > > I'm doing this as follows. But do not be. > > find /backup/ +1 -delete -mtime > > Can you help? I'm not terribl

Re: find and copy [Solved]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:19:39PM -0500, Craig L. wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 12:52:09PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > > You should be bonza, fab, good to go :) [...] > Well I don't know about bonza, and I thought fab was back in the sixties :). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainmen

Re: find and copy [Solved]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 12:52:09PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Sorry, I forgot you needed renaming. So -I option to xargs may be > useful for you. > > OK, try something like this: > > sh -c 'cp "$0" /tmp/data.backup/${HOSTNAME}".${0:2}"' {} \; > > find /tmp/var -mmin -60 -a -iname '*.sq

Re: find and copy

On 9/6/13, Craig L. wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 07:16:42AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> > Both seem to be trying to copy the string '{}' and the directory >> > /var/data.backup/ to the directory name that is being piped to >> > xargs, the name of the found file in this case, which is how

Re: find and copy

Thanks Zenaan, for moving this back on-list (to anyone interested, I replied privately by mistake. Zenaan was gracious enough to accept my mistake) On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 07:16:42AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > It seems I was a bit cavalier on more than one count. My apologies. No apology

Re: find and copy

On 9/3/13, Craig L. wrote: > On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 11:26:07AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 9/1/13, Craig L. wrote: >> >> but evidently not quite ... >> > >> >find /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/backup -mmin -60 -a -iname '*.sql' \ >> >-execdir cp '{}' /var/data.backup/ ';' >> > >> > cop

Re: find and coy

On 9/1/13, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 9/1/13, Craig L. wrote: > find /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/backup -mmin -60 -a -iname '*.sql' -printf > "blah" \ > | xargs cp '{}' /var/data.backup/ That second line should perhaps be | xargs -n 1 cp '{}' /var/data.backup/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: find and coy

On 9/1/13, Craig L. wrote: > Thanks Zenaan (and apologies to all for the poor formatting of my original > post. I forgot this bloody web interface defaults to that. fmt to the > rescue) > > On Saturday, August 31, 2013 11:16, "Zenaan Harkness" > said: > >> On 9/1/13, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >>> fi

Re: find and coy

Thanks Zenaan (and apologies to all for the poor formatting of my original post. I forgot this bloody web interface defaults to that. fmt to the rescue) On Saturday, August 31, 2013 11:16, "Zenaan Harkness" said: > On 9/1/13, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> find the recent file and copy only it. I hav

Re: find and coy

On 9/1/13, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > find the recent file and copy only it. I have no problem developing that > find command, but evidently not quite ... > but I want to rename the copy in the process by pre-pending > the file name with the hostname so I can differentiate between dumps from > diff

Re: find associated process

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 09:31:08PM -0700, james gray wrote: >how do i find the file address associated with each process. If you know the process ID (pid. ps should be able to help you find it), then look at what /proc/$PID/exe points to. That's the executable associated with that pid. >T

Re: find -printf ' %TT

On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 10:31:08AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > ext3 has second resolution. > > XFS, BTRFS and Ext4 have higher resolutions. Example: > > martin@merkaba:~> LANG=C stat /etc/fstab > File: `/etc/fstab' > Size: 1733Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular f

Re: find -printf ' %TT

Am Sonntag, 5. August 2012 schrieb Sven Joachim: > On 2012-08-05 18:33 +0200, Mike McClain wrote: > > Thanks Sven. > > > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 08:33:54AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2012-08-05 07:57 +0200, Mike McClain wrote: > > > > > >> > Given "find / -type f -printf '%TT %p\n'

Re: find -printf ' %TT

On 2012-08-05 18:33 +0200, Mike McClain wrote: > Thanks Sven. > On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 08:33:54AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2012-08-05 07:57 +0200, Mike McClain wrote: > >> > Given "find / -type f -printf '%TT %p\n'". > >> > Is there a way to get back the hh:mm:ss output as it used

Re: find -printf ' %TT

Thanks Sven. On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 08:33:54AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-08-05 07:57 +0200, Mike McClain wrote: > > Given "find / -type f -printf '%TT %p\n'". > > Is there a way to get back the hh:mm:ss output as it used to be short > > of piping the output through sed 's/.0

Re: find -printf ' %TT

On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 14:01:04 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Sonntag, 5. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: >> On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:57:55 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: >> > Given "find / -type f -printf '%TT %p\n'". Gnu find previously >> > printed hh:mm:ss for the files modify time but now is pri

Re: find -printf ' %TT

Am Sonntag, 5. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:57:55 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > Given "find / -type f -printf '%TT %p\n'". Gnu find previously > > printed hh:mm:ss for the files modify time but now is printing > > hh:mm:ss.00 for all 33K+ files on my Squeeze syste

Re: find -printf ' %TT

On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:57:55 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > Given "find / -type f -printf '%TT %p\n'". Gnu find previously printed > hh:mm:ss for the files modify time but now is printing > hh:mm:ss.00 for all 33K+ files on my Squeeze system. > > The man page still says: > T time,

Re: find -printf ' %TT

On 2012-08-05 07:57 +0200, Mike McClain wrote: > Given "find / -type f -printf '%TT %p\n'". > Gnu find previously printed hh:mm:ss for the files modify time > but now is printing hh:mm:ss.00 for all 33K+ files on > my Squeeze system. > > The man page still says: > T time, 24-h

Re: Find the broken link

On Mon, 07 May 2012 13:34:25 +0800, lina wrote: > I don't know how to find out all the broken links in the system. What do you mean by "broken links"? > I can't enter into interface, Enter into what? You mean you can't login? > One reason is my /var has no space, I have deleted some cache to r

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

On 2011-12-22 16:30:57 +0100, Tom H wrote: > You can check whether a file in "/etc/default/" is sourced by a file > in "/etc/init.d/". It's impossible to do this reliably (e.g. recursively), and the /etc/default/ file may be sourced by another script. For instance, /etc/default/cryptdisks is not

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-12-20 14:20:51 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: >> >> But I think this discussion of /etc/default/ collisions is all rather >> academic.  No one has yet to mention any real world case of a problem. >> Just the potential that it might be a p

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

On 2011-12-20 14:20:51 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > But I think this discussion of /etc/default/ collisions is all rather > academic. No one has yet to mention any real world case of a problem. > Just the potential that it might be a problem. Unless it is a real > problem, and I haven't seen it yet

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

Hi, On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:06:04PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Ma, 20 dec 11, 20:56:11, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:29:01AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > The point is what the Debian Policy says. > > > > Anyway, if you feel strong to enforce this ipart of pol

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

Andrei Popescu wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > The point is what the Debian Policy says. > > > > Anyway, if you feel strong to enforce this ipart of policy, most > > effective thing to do is file a wishlist bug with patch to lintian to > > enforce for both init.d scri

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

On Ma, 20 dec 11, 20:56:11, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:29:01AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > The point is what the Debian Policy says. > > Anyway, if you feel strong to enforce this ipart of policy, most > effective thing to do is file a wishlist bug with patch to lintian

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:29:01AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The point is what the Debian Policy says. Anyway, if you feel strong to enforce this ipart of policy, most effective thing to do is file a wishlist bug with patch to lintian to enforce for both init.d script and default file. I

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

Hi, On 2011-12-19 23:02:07 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 01:02:22AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2011-12-18 13:18:02 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > The namespace is defined by Debian Policy. The filename should be > > > named after the package name. Since the package

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

Hi, On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 01:02:22AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-12-18 13:18:02 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > The namespace is defined by Debian Policy. The filename should be > > named after the package name. Since the package names must be > > different the file name derived from

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

On 2011-12-18 21:20:06 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Well... We are all friends here. Have you hit a problem with one of > them? I am sure something could be worked out. No problems with /etc/default yet. But I think that it would have been preferable to avoid problems that could arise in the futu

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Okay I was wrong on the strictly exact names. But most of those do > > exist within the expected namespace of the parent package. The only > > ones that are a stretch are devpts and tmpfs. The others are pretty > > obvious. > > But this not suffici

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

On 2011-12-18 17:09:35 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > /etc/default/alsa created by alsa-base > > /etc/default/apache2 created by apache2.2-common > > /etc/default/bluetooth created by bluez > > /etc/default/bootlogd created by initscripts > > /etc/default/cacerts created by c

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The namespace is defined by Debian Policy. The filename should be > > named after the package name. Since the package names must be > > different the file name derived from it must be different. (I think > > it is okay for /etc/default/foo to be par

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

On 2011-12-18 13:18:02 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > The namespace is defined by Debian Policy. The filename should be > named after the package name. Since the package names must be > different the file name derived from it must be different. (I think > it is okay for /etc/default/foo to be part o

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The namespace is defined by Debian Policy. The filename should be > > named after the package name. Since the package names must be > > different the file name derived from it must be different. (I think > > it is okay for /etc/default/foo to be par

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

On 2011-12-18 13:18:02 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > The namespace is defined by Debian Policy. The filename should be > named after the package name. Since the package names must be > different the file name derived from it must be different. (I think > it is okay for /etc/default/foo to be part o

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Sometimes I see people file bugs to the BTS against a package asking > > for the package to provide a /etc/default/ file as part of the > > package. When I see those I usually counter with a request that it > > not be made part of the package. If the

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

On 2011-12-17 18:55:45 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Sometimes I see people file bugs to the BTS against a package asking > for the package to provide a /etc/default/ file as part of the > package. When I see those I usually counter with a request that it > not be made part of the package. If the fi

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

Vincent Lefevre wrote: > However there are still packages for which neither dpkg -S, nor ucfq > gives information about the package: > > xvii:~> ll /etc/default/ntfs-3g > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48 2011-12-08 00:21:36 /etc/default/ntfs-3g > xvii:~> dpkg -S /etc/default/ntfs-3g > dpkg-query: no path

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

On 2011-12-18 02:11:33 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 18.12.2011 01:00, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Is there a way to find which package has installed some file > > under /etc? For conffiles, there is dlocate or "dpkg -S", but > > what about the other files (installed in postinst)? > > ucf is als

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

On 18.12.2011 01:00, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Is there a way to find which package has installed some file > under /etc? For conffiles, there is dlocate or "dpkg -S", but > what about the other files (installed in postinst)? ucf is also used to manage configuration files. As those files are not re

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Is there a way to find which package has installed some file > under /etc? Yes, if the package owns the file. No, if the package put it there but didn't keep ownership of it. > For conffiles, there is dlocate or "dpkg -S", Exactly! If the package kept track of the file

Re: Find bugs reported by x

On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:32:10 +, David Van Mosselbeen wrote: > Just about curiosity, i'm trying to search how less bugs i reported or > replied on. > > Here[1] we can search submitters of bugs. But when i look on the > generated page, i only get 2 reported bugs on my name. I know i reported >

Re: find+grep [was: Re: Amaya W3C Web browser and sid]

On Jo, 29 iul 10, 13:59:29, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Qui, 29 Jul 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >add > > > >dpkg -l | grep > > At least here (a somewhat old 8.04 Ubuntu), dpkg -l still requires grep: > > $ dpkg -l gnome > No packages found matching gnome. Of course, there is no package n

Re: find+grep [was: Re: Amaya W3C Web browser and sid]

On Thursday 29 July 2010 11:51:55 Jordon Bedwell wrote: > On 7/29/10 11:31 AM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > On 07/29/2010 12:22 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> I understand your issues with all but the last one. A user may need > >

Re: find+grep [was: Re: Amaya W3C Web browser and sid]

On Thursday 29 July 2010 11:56:45 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Qui, 29 Jul 2010, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > > See my reply to Eduardo. In short, having (sudo su) available does not > > mean that (sudo -i) will work. > > Well, if you wanna give a full root shell to someone, then do it i

Re: find+grep [was: Re: Amaya W3C Web browser and sid]

On Qui, 29 Jul 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: add dpkg -l | grep At least here (a somewhat old 8.04 Ubuntu), dpkg -l still requires grep: $ dpkg -l gnome No packages found matching gnome. $ dpkg -l | grep gnome $ LANG=C dpkg -l | grep gnome ii bluez-gnome0.25-0u

Re: find+grep [was: Re: Amaya W3C Web browser and sid]

On Qui, 29 Jul 2010, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: See my reply to Eduardo. In short, having (sudo su) available does not mean that (sudo -i) will work. Well, if you wanna give a full root shell to someone, then do it in the correct way (allowing sudo -i to work), instead of allowing "su"

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