Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-24 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
local10 wrote on 24/01/2022 at 00:32:10+0100: > Jan 23, 2022, 21:43 by p...@debian.org: > >> What happened is that DAM took a decision, which was challenged by some >> Developers, among with some were willing to start a General Resolution >> to overturn DAM's decision. >> >> In that heated discu

Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread deloptes
Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > This seems to me close to harassment. its just popcorn but you'll obviously never get it. please stop as well and thank you in advance -- FCD6 3719 0FFB F1BF 38EA 4727 5348 5F1F DCFE BCB0

Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2022-01-23 21:27, deloptes wrote: > local10 wrote: > >> I asked you a simple question: Is there a list of all the horrible things >> Norbert Preining said that was used to support the decision to demote him? >> >> Instead of providing a clear answer to the question you seem to be more >> inte

Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread deloptes
local10 wrote: > I asked you a simple question: Is there a list of all the horrible things > Norbert Preining said that was used to support the decision to demote him? > > Instead of providing a clear answer to the question you seem to be more > interesting in engaging in sophism and detracting f

Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2022-01-23 19:27, local10 wrote: > Jan 23, 2022, 23:58 by deb...@polynamaude.com: > >> >> >>> Sounds sketchy but whatever.  Is there a list of all the horrible things >>> Norbert Preining said that was used to support the decision to demote him? >>> As a Debian and KDE user I'm trying to un

Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread local10
Jan 23, 2022, 23:58 by deb...@polynamaude.com: > > >> Sounds sketchy but whatever.  Is there a list of all the horrible things >> Norbert Preining said that was used to support the decision to demote him? >> As a Debian and KDE user I'm trying to understand if Debian leadership was >> reasonabl

Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2022-01-23 18:32, local10 wrote: > Jan 23, 2022, 21:43 by p...@debian.org: > >> What happened is that DAM took a decision, which was challenged by some >> Developers, among with some were willing to start a General Resolution >> to overturn DAM's decision. >> >> In that heated discussion, Ian

Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread local10
Jan 23, 2022, 21:43 by p...@debian.org: > What happened is that DAM took a decision, which was challenged by some > Developers, among with some were willing to start a General Resolution > to overturn DAM's decision. > > In that heated discussion, Ian decided to collect any bad interaction > betwe

Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread RP
n 1/23/22 13:43, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: local10 wrote on 23/01/2022 at 21:34:19+0100: Jan 23, 2022, 20:12 by deb...@polynamaude.com: You'd leave because you have to be held responsible for your actions ? What actions? Based on the message ( https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2019

Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
local10 wrote on 23/01/2022 at 21:34:19+0100: > Jan 23, 2022, 20:12 by deb...@polynamaude.com: > >> You'd leave because you have to be held responsible for your actions ? >> > > What actions? Based on the message > ( https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2019/01/msg00186.html ) it > looks like

Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, 2022-01-23 at 21:34 +0100, local10 wrote: > Jan 23, 2022, 20:12 by deb...@polynamaude.com: > > > You'd leave because you have to be held responsible for your actions ? > > > > What actions? Based on the message (  > https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2019/01/msg00186.html ) it looks

Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread local10
Jan 23, 2022, 20:12 by deb...@polynamaude.com: > You'd leave because you have to be held responsible for your actions ? > What actions? Based on the message (  https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2019/01/msg00186.html ) it looks like they came up with the verdict first and then started to lo

Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2022-01-23 14:10, local10 wrote: > Jan 23, 2022, 18:48 by ta...@debianlists.mobilxpress.net: > >> On 23.01.22 00:24, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> >>> >>> >> I think the further deterioration of his relation with Debian stems from >> there, but i did not explore 900 matches of >> >>

Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
local10 wrote on 23/01/2022 at 20:10:26+0100: > Jan 23, 2022, 18:48 by ta...@debianlists.mobilxpress.net: > >> On 23.01.22 00:24, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> >>> >>> >> I think the further deterioration of his relation with Debian stems from >> there, but i did not explore 900 matches o

Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 08:10:26PM +0100, local10 wrote: > Jan 23, 2022, 18:48 by ta...@debianlists.mobilxpress.net: > > > On 23.01.22 00:24, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > >> > >> > > I think the further deterioration of his relation with Debian stems from > > there, but i did not explore

Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread local10
Jan 23, 2022, 18:48 by ta...@debianlists.mobilxpress.net: > On 23.01.22 00:24, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >> >> > I think the further deterioration of his relation with Debian stems from > there, but i did not explore 900 matches of > > > > https://lists.debian.org/cgi-bi

Re: [SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread Marco Möller
E Plasma desktop environment as available in Debian, I do not feel it to be, lets say, insolent, if interested in community affairs. Actually, I feel it desirable to stay well informed for reinforcing advocacy, and asking for transparency is to me a coherent step. I feel that a concise statement fr

[SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
ul user of Debian, and being in my circle of influence a > strong advocate of the Debian project, and also of the KDE Plasma desktop > environment as available in Debian, I do not feel it to be, lets say, > insolent, if interested in community affairs. Actually, I feel it desirable > to stay

Apology; misleading statement about 64 GB being sufficient

2021-04-20 Thread rhkramer
Not too long ago, I made a statement like "64 GB should be enough for anybody ;-)" (when talking about a new Lenovo micro computer). It turns out I was wrong, Over on the "Libre-Soc General Development" maillist (where they are working on building a new basically "op

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 08 Jul 08:38 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > There are lots of choices here. And this is with only the login shell > layer involved -- no X11 or Wayland. Good points and it must be emphasized that ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile are for *login* shells only. Ordinarily shells started from a

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 07:53:53AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > https://noah.meyerhans.us/2020/07/07/setting-environment-variables-for-gnome-session/ > As I read it, where an environment variable should be set depends on the > intended scope of the variable. One comment in response to the blog >

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 07 Jul 08:58 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > The Subject line is the problem with my Debian Buster platform. Now from > Google I see that there has been a change in the way Debian handles this > problem. > > My user path statement is: > > comp@AbNormal:~$ echo $

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 07:39:40AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 10:44:39AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > - XFCE acts as, or uses, Dash or something that does not propagate shell > > functions in the parent env > > There are many layers involved. Assuming you're logg

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 10:44:39AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > - XFCE acts as, or uses, Dash or something that does not propagate shell > functions in the parent env There are many layers involved. Assuming you're logging in with a "Debian X session", a POSIX shell (sh) is used to read most

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 08 iul 20, 10:44:39, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > - so try somewhere in the session startup apps - nope, courdn't > figure it out at least For Debian you want ~/.xsessionrc Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 08 iul 20, 09:59:52, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:29:47AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > $HOME/bin is placed into the user's default PATH by Debian's ~/.profile > > (the one in /etc/skel/.profile) if it exists at the time the ~/.profile > > is read, if the ~/.pro

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-07 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Jul 2020 at 20:20:11 (-0400), Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 09:59:52AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:29:47AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:17:37PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 07, 202

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:16:21AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Gods, I am so tired of this question and having to repeat my demands > for BASIC information over and over. > > Here are some resources for those of you who refuse to reveal any of > the necessary background information to get answe

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 09:59:52AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:29:47AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:17:37PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 04:14:16PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > > > cd ~/bin > > > > ln -

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Ahh, asked too soon. Thanks Greg. On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:16:21AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 09:57:34AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > The Subject line is the problem > > Yeah. The Subject: line reveals the problem: you believe that PATH is > set primarily by

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:29:47AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:17:37PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 04:14:16PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > > cd ~/bin > > > ln -s ../opt/something/bin/something > > > > Not in the default PATH either. >

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-07 Thread Nicolas George
Jonathan Dowland (12020-07-07): > Not in the default PATH either. No, but probably one of the first things anybody who has non-elementary use will have configured anyway. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:17:37PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 04:14:16PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > cd ~/bin > > ln -s ../opt/something/bin/something > > Not in the default PATH either. $HOME/bin is placed into the user's default PATH by Debian's ~/.profile (th

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 04:14:16PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: cd ~/bin ln -s ../opt/something/bin/something Not in the default PATH either. -- 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎j...@debian.org 🔗 https://jmtd.net

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 09:57:34AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > The Subject line is the problem Yeah. The Subject: line reveals the problem: you believe that PATH is set primarily by your shell. It's not. It's set primarily by your method of login, and then by your session tools, whether t

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-07 Thread Nicolas George
Roberto C. Sánchez (12020-07-07): > You should add the export command to ~/.bashrc (for it to only be in > effect for that user) Except ~/.bashrc is only sourced for interactive shells, it will not be run when applications are executed by a GUI, for example. (Also, for some reason, the bash autho

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
but from what you describe below I find it unlikely that anything has changed in the observed behavior. > My user path statement is: > > comp@AbNormal:~$ echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games > > Now I have a number of applications that have mu

How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-07 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
The Subject line is the problem with my Debian Buster platform. Now from Google I see that there has been a change in the way Debian handles this problem. My user path statement is: comp@AbNormal:~$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games Now I have a number of

Re: Statement

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Re: Help with quotes in find statement in ksh script

2011-07-16 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe, the following little shell example can help: file_pattern='-name \*.c -o -name \*.h' eval find . $file_pattern The stars ("*") have to be protected from being evaluated by the shell in the second line, therefore, the backslashes. The eval command does the trick, its a shell built-in. By t

Help with quotes in find statement in ksh script

2011-07-14 Thread Gonzalo Viegas Aurelio
-name "*2010[01][1234567890]*" -o -name "*2011[01][1234567890]*" But when I use $filter in my find statement: list=`find . $filter` echo $list; The variable $list is empty! I think that the ksh cant resolv the quotes in the $filter string. I try using combinations of hard quo

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 08:23 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 20 feb 11, 03:20:52, Ron Johnson wrote: Then it should be named: Debian GNU/X/GNOME/KDE/Lots-of-other-stuff Linux. Well, I guess that depends very much on the definition of an OS. IMVHO a kernel (Linux of kFreeBSD in case of Debian) plu

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 20 feb 11, 03:20:52, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Then it should be named: >Debian GNU/X/GNOME/KDE/Lots-of-other-stuff Linux. Well, I guess that depends very much on the definition of an OS. IMVHO a kernel (Linux of kFreeBSD in case of Debian) plus the GNU tools can already be called an OS

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/20/2011 07:37 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:20:52 -0500 (EST), Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/17/2011 07:54 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: The longer, more formal name of Debian is "Debian GNU/Linux". It is called that because the core of the system is the fusion of the Linux ker

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:20:52 -0500 (EST), Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/17/2011 07:54 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> The longer, more formal name of Debian is "Debian GNU/Linux". It is called >> that >> because the core of the system is the fusion of the Linux kernel (which is >> not >> part of the G

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 2/20/2011 3:20 AM: > Then it should be named: >Debian GNU/X/GNOME/KDE/Lots-of-other-stuff Linux. > > I remember when RMS got all pissy about Hurd getting overshadowed by a > little punk from Finland and fearing that people would forget about his > greatness. I defini

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-20 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 17 February 2011 17:37:37 Lisi wrote: Thanks for such helpful replies. :-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201102201010.55990.lisi.r

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2011 07:54 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On 17:37 Thu 17 Feb, Lisi (lisi.re...@gmail.com) wrote: Is this statement correct? It comes in the textbook for a course I am doing. Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project. If so, where does LILO fit in? The

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:12:42 -0500 (EST), Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > On Friday 18 February 2011 02:54:03 Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> The longer, more formal name of Debian is "Debian GNU/Linux". >> ... > > Unless it isn't, of course. > > As it's the case for Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. And Debian GN

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Stephen: On Friday 18 February 2011 02:54:03 Stephen Powell wrote: > On 17:37 Thu 17 Feb, Lisi (lisi.re...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Is this statement correct? It comes in the textbook for a course I am > > doing. > > Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot progr

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On 17:37 Thu 17 Feb, Lisi (lisi.re...@gmail.com) wrote: > Is this statement correct? It comes in the textbook for a course I am doing. > > Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project. > > > If so, where does LILO fit in? The longer, more formal

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
The first Linux I installed (that was back to 2003) defaulted to GRUB as bootloader and GRUB (legacy) is the only bootloader I've installed -and tweaked- since then. While I've seen "LILOs" when testing another distributions, true is that I have not a deep knowdledge of how it works. But, for wha

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 12:55 Thu 17 Feb, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. (b...@iguanasuicide.net) wrote: > On Thursday 17 February 2011 12:44:05 Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > LILO was an earlier bootloader. For Linux. Hence: LInux LOader. > > It was a successor to LoadLin, a program to LOAD LINux. That is a DOS executable: L

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:35:04 -0600, Kent West wrote: > On 02/17/2011 12:04 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> LILO is another bootloader available for Linux. >> >> What was your concern? The sponsor? :-) >> >> >> >> > LILO was the boot loader used a version or few back. It can still be > used, but it's n

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 17 February 2011 12:44:05 Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > LILO was an earlier bootloader. For Linux. Hence: LInux LOader. It was a successor to LoadLin, a program to LOAD LINux. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) IC

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 17:37 Thu 17 Feb, Lisi (lisi.re...@gmail.com) wrote: > Is this statement correct? It comes in the textbook for a course I am doing. 1: Why does this matter? > > Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project. > > > If so, where does LILO fi

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Kent West
On 02/17/2011 12:04 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:37:37 +, Lisi wrote: Is this statement correct? It comes in the textbook for a course I am doing. Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project. Yep, is correct. If so, where does

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Lisi wrote: Is this statement correct? It comes in the textbook for a course I am doing. Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB If so, where does LILO fit in? Well, LILO is short for "LInux LOader" ... fo

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:37:37 +, Lisi wrote: > Is this statement correct? It comes in the textbook for a course I am > doing. > Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project. > Yep, is correct. > If so, where does LILO fit in? LILO is ano

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 17 February 2011 11:37:37 Lisi wrote: > Is this statement correct? > Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project. Yes. > If so, where does LILO fit in? LILO isn't a GNU project. LILO is licensed under the GNU GPL. The GNU GPL is the li

Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Lisi
Is this statement correct? It comes in the textbook for a course I am doing. Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project. If so, where does LILO fit in? Thanks, Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: gcc: A while Loop Always Skips its first Statement.

2010-08-20 Thread Jangita
On 20/08/2010 3:43 p, Martin McCormick wrote: Jangita writes: Not a question for this list but Sorry. 1. Is there any statement in the while loop that changes NEXTSYS? (or better still, send any statement that has NEXTSYS in it while inside the loop) Yes! I didn't even think about

Re: gcc: A while Loop Always Skips its first Statement.

2010-08-20 Thread Martin McCormick
Jangita writes: > Not a question for this list but Sorry. > > 1. Is there any statement in the while loop that changes NEXTSYS? (or > better still, send any statement that has NEXTSYS in it while inside the > loop) Yes! I didn't even think about that but there is a test in

Re: gcc: A while Loop Always Skips its first Statement.

2010-08-20 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Martin McCormick wrote: I have written some C code that appeared to be good until I put a while statement in to one of the modules and then all went to at least Purgatory. It all compiles beautifully but I was alerted to something terribly wrong when the program began misbehaving. I can't

Re: gcc: A while Loop Always Skips its first Statement.

2010-08-20 Thread Martin McCormick
Jangita writes: > Not a question for this list but Sorry. > > 1. Is there any statement in the while loop that changes NEXTSYS? (or > better still, send any statement that has NEXTSYS in it while inside the > loop) Yes! I didn't even think about that but there is a test in

Re: gcc: A while Loop Always Skips its first Statement.

2010-08-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2010-08-20 08:01:46 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: [...] > Reading about the while loop tells me that the statement Actually, that's an expression, not a statement. > after while must be true to execute. If I put a boolean variable > inside the statement as in (NEXTSYS) do

Re: gcc: A while Loop Always Skips its first Statement.

2010-08-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/20/2010 08:01 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: I have written some C code that appeared to be good until I put a while statement in to one of the modules and then all went to at least Purgatory. It all compiles beautifully but I was alerted to something terribly wrong when the program began

Re: gcc: A while Loop Always Skips its first Statement.

2010-08-20 Thread Jangita
On 20/08/2010 3:01 p, Martin McCormick wrote: I have written some C code that appeared to be good until I put a while statement in to one of the modules and then all went to at least Purgatory. It all compiles beautifully but I was alerted to something terribly wrong when the program began

gcc: A while Loop Always Skips its first Statement.

2010-08-20 Thread Martin McCormick
I have written some C code that appeared to be good until I put a while statement in to one of the modules and then all went to at least Purgatory. It all compiles beautifully but I was alerted to something terribly wrong when the program began misbehaving. I can't even say that it is

Re: back to basics: what's wrong with this exim condition statement?

2007-12-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 07:03:29PM -0600, Bob Goldberg wrote: > nevermind - I finally figured it out... do tell Bob! A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

back to basics: what's wrong with this exim condition statement?

2007-12-12 Thread Bob Goldberg
nevermind - I finally figured it out...

back to basics: what's wrong with this exim condition statement?

2007-12-11 Thread Bob Goldberg
running debian etch (which is exim4); I'm having problems with an ACL; so i've gone to absolute basics, and I still have a problem :) So here's what I have in my ACL: accept message = condition is false condition = ${if eq{23}{123}{1}{0}} next, I telnet in, and transact an email up to th

Re: small if statement in shell script

2005-06-24 Thread Andy Rowan
At 05:29 PM 6/22/2005, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: On 2005-06-22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have an if statement, something like: > > if [ "$day" = "Thu" ]; then > tar -cpf /var/backups/homethu.tar /home > fi > > If I decide to pound ou

Re: small if statement in shell script

2005-06-22 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On 2005-06-22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have an if statement, something like: > > if [ "$day" = "Thu" ]; then > tar -cpf /var/backups/homethu.tar /home > fi > > If I decide to pound out the tar command, then the script > will error a

Re: small if statement in shell script

2005-06-22 Thread Marty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You have to have something for the shell to run. Try setting a new variable to 1 or some such silly-ness and it will work. Or else you have to comment out the entire if statement. I guess I could just add an

Re: small if statement in shell script

2005-06-22 Thread michael
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You have to have something for the shell to run. Try setting a new variable to 1 or some such silly-ness and it will work. Or else you have to comment out the entire if statement. I guess I could just add an blank echo command

Re: small if statement in shell script

2005-06-22 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/22/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an if statement, something like: > > if [ "$day" = "Thu" ]; then > tar -cpf /var/backups/homethu.tar /home > fi Try the following: if [ "$day" = "Thu" ]; then tar -cp

Re: small if statement in shell script

2005-06-22 Thread kevin . kempter
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 14:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have an if statement, something like: > > if [ "$day" = "Thu" ]; then > tar -cpf /var/backups/homethu.tar /home > fi > > If I decide to pound out the tar command, then the script

small if statement in shell script

2005-06-22 Thread michael
Hello, I have an if statement, something like: if [ "$day" = "Thu" ]; then tar -cpf /var/backups/homethu.tar /home fi If I decide to pound out the tar command, then the script will error and it won't continue on. Is it possible to pound out the tar command and sti

Re: PATH statement in X

2003-12-05 Thread John L. Fjellstad
has to have been set somewhere. The PATH statement is spread out through a couple of Xsessions, but neither builds up the give me the path I currently have. So my question still stand. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Qui

Re: PATH statement in X

2003-12-04 Thread Mark Roach
t that simple. Neither UserPath nor SystemPath occurs in my kdmrc. When I > follow Xsession, that do set my PATH statement, I don't get the path that I > see in the konsole (by doing echo $PATH), which is why I'm asking where all > the places the PATH is set in the first place. So,

Re: PATH statement in X

2003-12-03 Thread John L. Fjellstad
that do set my PATH statement, I don't get the path that I see in the konsole (by doing echo $PATH), which is why I'm asking where all the places the PATH is set in the first place. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/

Re: PATH statement in X

2003-12-02 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 14:50, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > Where are all the places the PATH is set when you are using X-Window (kdm)? > > Problem is, when I log in from the console, I get this path: > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/games > > when I open a xterm, and do ec

PATH statement in X

2003-12-01 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Where are all the places the PATH is set when you are using X-Window (kdm)? Problem is, when I log in from the console, I get this path: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/games when I open a xterm, and do echo $PATH, I get this: /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin

IAB Statement on DNS Wildcards

2003-09-20 Thread moseley
http://www.iab.org/documents/docs/2003-09-20-dns-wildcards.html "Proposed guideline: If you want to use wildcards in your zone and understand the risks, go ahead, but only do so with the informed consent of the entities that are delegated within your zone." -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED]

(t)csh and the "if" statement

1998-11-02 Thread Clemens Heuberger
I want to run the shell-script #!/bin/csh if ($?EDITOR) echo "Setting EDITOR" the result is as follows: then: then/endif not found. what was not my intention. Any help? (I have to use csh instead of bash since I have to install some software package with twenty csh-Shell-scripts, which I do

Re: case statement question again...

1997-11-16 Thread Mark W. Eichin
>>[10-31]) SearchStr="$Month $Day";; That means "a single character in the set 1, 0 through 3, and 1", so it will match any of 0 1 2 3 and nothing else. >># [12][0-9]) SearchStr="$Month $Day";; >># 30 | 31 ) Day=02; SearchStr="$Month 9";; That's more like it; the [12][0-9]

Re: case statement question again...

1997-11-07 Thread john
Oliver Elphick writes: > On the other hand, this does not properly handle invalid day/month > combinations, such as 31 February. Do you handle that somewhere else? Use the 'date' command. For example: date +%D --date '1/1/97 +60days' returns: 03/02/97 Like most GNU utilities,

Re: case statement question again...

1997-11-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
David Oswald wrote: >Hello all - I have a KSH script question... > >sorry - the offending line is [10-31]) not [30-31]) What `[10-31]' says is: match any single character which is a 1, a character from 0 to 3 inclusive, or (another) 1. What you want is `[12][0-9]|3[0-1]'. On the other hand

Re: case statement question...

1997-11-06 Thread Ben Pfaff
David Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hello all - I have a KSH script question... > > Can someone out there take a look at this script. I want to perform an > operation based on the day of month. but the days (10 - 31) are giving > me a problem. I would really like to keep this a one line

case statement question again...

1997-11-06 Thread David Oswald
Hello all - I have a KSH script question... sorry - the offending line is [10-31]) not [30-31]) Can someone out there take a look at this script. I want to perform an operation based on the day of month. but the days (10 - 31) are giving me a problem. I would really like to keep this a one liner

case statement question...

1997-11-06 Thread David Oswald
Hello all - I have a KSH script question... Can someone out there take a look at this script. I want to perform an operation based on the day of month. but the days (10 - 31) are giving me a problem. I would really like to keep this a one liner if i can. How bout anybody out there done something l