Re: write-protected filesystems [Was Re: dpkg and shadow]

1997-03-22 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "meierrj" == meierrj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [When I mount] an Iomega Zip drive ... occasionally[,] I get >> the message: sda: Write Protect is off sda: sda4 ... Is there >> a command out there somewhere to write protect/unprotect disks? meierrj>I am not familia

Re: Why is my /home g+s staff? [Was Re: dpkg and shadow]

1997-03-21 Thread meierrj
> Here's a quick question: Why is my /home g+s staff? > drwxrwsr-x 4 root staff1024 Mar 19 23:05 /home/ Your $HOME directory is probably /home/. /home is the parent directory for the home directories of all the users (real and system) on your machine. Normally only the staf

Re: dpkg and shadow

1997-03-21 Thread Michael Tempsch
On 20 Mar, Thought wrote: Re: Hi all, it's me again. First off thanks for the numerous replies to my Re: chmodding question :) [snip] Re: Here's another quick question: I have an Iomega Zip drive, and Re: occasionally I get the message: Re: sda: Write Protect is off Re: sda: sda4 Re: when moun

Re: dpkg and shadow [and more]

1997-03-21 Thread Carey Evans
Thought <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to make dpkg give me a list (output) of ALL the packages > (installed and not installed) along with their descriptions? Even just > the short one-liner descriptions? less /var/lib/dpkg/available [snip] > Ok, here's another question about sha

Re: dpkg list of all packages [Was Re: dpkg and shadow]

1997-03-20 Thread meierrj
> Is there a way to make dpkg give me a list (output) of ALL the packages > (installed and not installed) along with their descriptions? Even just > the short one-liner descriptions? ... I want to search ... by a keyword ... dpkg -l This produces a list of selected packages (in

Re: write-protected filesystems [Was Re: dpkg and shadow]

1997-03-20 Thread meierrj
> [When I mount] an Iomega Zip drive ... occasionally[,] I get the message: > sda: Write Protect is off >sda: sda4 > ... Is there a command out there somewhere to write protect/unprotect > disks? I am not familiar with Iomega drives but strongly suspect that the message is

Re: dpkg and shadow

1997-03-20 Thread Kai Grossjohann
> Thought writes: Thought> [...] Or better yet, is there a program that will search my Thought> whole disk (or at least all the data in a directory tree) Thought> for a word(s)? [...] There's glimpse, which is a bit of grep-on-steroids. You run glimpseindex once, give it a directory (

dpkg and shadow

1997-03-20 Thread Thought
Hi all, it's me again. First off thanks for the numerous replies to my chmodding question :) Is there a way to make dpkg give me a list (output) of ALL the packages (installed and not installed) along with their descriptions? Even just the short one-liner descriptions? The reason I'm asking is