Re: Something weird about file permissions

2009-03-31 Thread Countable Infinity
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:56 PM, wrote: > Hi guys! Something is very weird or I didn't sleep enough last night. I am > puzzled. How can an ordinary user delete a file he has no write access? > > See this example: > p...@montblanc:~$ cd /tmp/ > p...@montblanc:/tmp$ mkdir test; cd test > p...@montb

How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?

2009-01-23 Thread Countable Infinity
When I installed xfce4-terminal, it automatically installed libxfce4mcs-manager3, libxfce4util4, etc. But now if I do: aptitude purge xfce4-terminal it does not remove these libs that were installed automatically. Is there a way to remove these automatically installed packages when nothing depe

'who am i' command does not produce output in 'mrxvt'

2009-01-23 Thread Countable Infinity
'who am i' produces the following output in gnome-terminal: hum...@nifty:~$ who am i humptypts/22009-01-24 02:12 (:0.0) However, in mrxvt, it does not produce any output. hum...@nifty:~$ who am i hum...@nifty:~$ What could be the reason for this? Is this a bug? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: 'who am i' command does not produce output in 'mrxvt'

2009-01-23 Thread Countable Infinity
Yes. I am executing the 'who am i' command (not 'whoami' command). So, yes, I am putting space between them. On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Countable Infinity wrote: >> '

Re: 'who am i' command does not produce output in 'mrxvt'

2009-01-23 Thread Countable Infinity
are usual." "-m only hostname and user associated with stdin" So, 'who am i' is what I need. However, my question was a little different. When 'who am i' is producing output in gnome-terminal, why isn't it doing so in 'mrxvt' ? On Fri, Jan

Re: 'who am i' command does not produce output in 'mrxvt'

2009-01-23 Thread Countable Infinity
How can I check for utmp entry? Also, if the UTMP entry doesn't exist why does it work in gnome-terminal and while logging in through tty1, tty2, etc.? On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:44:42PM +, Countable Infinity wrote: >

Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?

2009-01-23 Thread Countable Infinity
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Fri January 23 2009 12:42:30 pm Countable Infinity wrote: >> When I installed xfce4-terminal, it automatically installed >> libxfce4mcs-manager3, libxfce4util4, etc. But now if I do: >> >> aptitude purge xfce4

Scrolling works in vim by default in gnome-terminal but not in mrxvt

2009-01-23 Thread Countable Infinity
Experiment 1 === 1. Open gnome-terminal 2. Run vim 3. Run command :help in vim 4. Use scroll wheel of the mouse to scroll 5. Scrolling happens successfully Experiment 2 === 1. Open mrxvt 2. Run vim 3. Run command :help in vim 4. Use scroll wheel of the mouse to scroll 5. Scrolling

Re: Scrolling works in vim by default in gnome-terminal but not in mrxvt

2009-01-24 Thread Countable Infinity
In both the experiments, if I open vim and run :set vim, I get this in the last line: mouse= 0,0-1 All On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 06:24:36AM +0000, Countable Infinity wr