Re: downgrade a package

h "dpkg -r kinkatta" and install it via apt-get. cheers, Yven -- Yven J. Leist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.leist.beldesign.de

Re: Locales and Java

se files might be in a jar file though which of course further complicates the whole matter... If you do not need to have this locale set when running viavoice then it might be simpler to make a small wrapper script that exports or unsets the locale variables and then starts viavoice. cheers, Yve

Re: max # of processes in debian testing

with the ulimit command (man bash); to set this value you can simply put a line in your .bashrc or /etc/profile that says something like for instance "ulimit -u 1000". cheers, Yven -- Yven J. Leist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.leist.beldesign.de

Re: max # of processes in debian testing

ese ulimits though, since they greatly vary on different machines, on auric for instance I'm able to feed "ulimit -u" arbitrarily high values, such as 100 000 000, although I guess it's rather unlikely that auric would be able to handle such an amount of processes

Re: Symlink farming to keep a list of new data

t n > days and keep it up to date in some directory off to the side. cd {your "side directory"} && find {you dirtree} -atime -{number of days} | xargs -i ln -s {} && for i in *; do if [ ! -e $i ]; then rm $i; fi; done might do the trick :-) cheers,