this is
really the difference you are seeing. This has been the traditional
UNIX behavior for 25 years. Some systems are now converting over to
using more characters as being significant and doing other security
enhancements.
Bob Proulx
> Dear mantainer,
Not the maintainer but another list denizen.
> Running
> su -c echo davide -norc
> with su (in sh-utils 2.0) under linux I receive the following
>
> su: invalid option -- n
> Try `su --help' for more information.
>
> is this correct?
> Reading the usage it
Steve
> date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
I am running version 2.0 as well and this is what I see. I don't see
your behavior. (It works for me. :-)
date +%X
14:55:59
date --version
date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
> This is a new install, and I haven't checked any patches yet, but I
> have assumed it i
> If I create a file as below and try to read it or delete it, gives
> problem saying "Unrecognized option".
>
> cat > ---abc
> aaldknfkdnadsf
> asldknf;alksdfn;asdf
> ^d
>
> To delete this file, it has to be in a directory and then we have to
> go to it's parent directory and forcefully remove
Sergio
> Unfortunately I was not using the header in my C
> application, I tried adding this header and it didn't make a difference...I
> assume then that without the unistd.h my application was using the shell
> version of sleep, is there a difference with the shell sleep and C's
> slee
following:
/bin/pwd --version
Bash implements several commands as builtins. Those commands are
entirely contained inside of the shell itself.
Bob Proulx
Nathan
> I wouldn't be surprised if this has already been addressed, but I was
> browsing the source for tee in shellutils 2.0 and noticed a FIXME
> comment on line 146:
>
> /* FIXME: warn if tee is given no file arguments.
> In that case it's just a slow imitation of `cat.' */
>
> So,
Note that I am not the maintainer but another list denizen.
> the "date" program from sh-utils-2.0 produces incorrect output on our
> HPUX build system. Format strings %V and %U always give "00",
> regardless of the actual date.
>
> The problem goes away if src/date.c and lib/strftime.c are manu
> Thanks for the report.
> However, that is the required behavior.
> I've changed cut's --help output and the texinfo documentation
> to mention this `feature':
>
> $ cut --help
> ...
> -f, --fields=LIST output only these fields; also print any line
>
> expr --version
> expr (GNU sh-utils) 2.0i
> Written by Mike Parker.
>
> expr $(01*10)
> 10
>
> expr $(07*10)
> 70
>
> expr $(08*10)
> 08: value too great for base (error token is "08")
>
> expr $(10*10)
> 100
>
> expr $(010*10)
> 80
It looks like it was reading numbers with a leading 0 as
question to the
the kernel developers mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
which is devoted to linux kernel development.
Regards,
Bob Proulx
> dear sir,
>
> can you help to solve following problem??
>
> I am using GCC to port RS485 device driver, but i encounted a serious problem.
>
in the online
man pages or online info pages. However, I suggest a good book on
UNIX such as the O'Reilly nutshell handbooks.
Bob Proulx
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e clock time is drifting and generating
random times then perhaps your battery has failed.
If you are at least sometimes connected to the Internet then you can
use NTP to keep your clock corrected. For information on NTP see the
following location.
http://www.eeci
Mark
> When I set the date in Redhat 6.2, it dates all files 6 hours ahead
> of the current time--I assume because it doesn't recognize my
> timezone??? How do I set this?
>
> i.e.
> > date
> Sun Jan 21 21:30:13 EST 2001
>
> > touch /tmp/testfile
> > ls -l /tmp/testfile
> -rw--- 1 mark
> I usually look to uname to give me the operating
> system version. In this case, I was investigating
> whether a particular system was Redhat 6.2 or 7.0.
>
> Now uname -v is suppose to "print the operating system
> version". Is this below output normal? Wherein lies
> the operating system vers
> When using the test program as in the following:
>
> if [ -f *.in ]; then
> do something
> fi
>
> This works fine as long as you have only one file with the extension =
> ".in", but when you have multiple files with the extension, it errors.
>
> Is this what was in
> Or perhaps you just want to know if any .in files exist at all in
> which case you could perhaps do something like this.
>
> if [ -n "`echo *.in`" ]; then
> : do something
> fi
I should test my snippets. This obviously won't work. You would
really need something like the following.
> If you change te rights of the /bin/su file to someting like 750 you can't
> login. If you change the richts back to the default settings you still can't
> login.
>
> SU reports the password is incorrect but it isn't.
>
> I tested it on RedHat 6.2 and 7.0. What is going wrong in su?
Hopefull
Stephan
> I tried to use 'tee' to log all inputs to some program:
> tee x.log|someprogram
>
> But when 'someprogram' terminates, 'tee' still keeps on waiting for
> input. It apparently ignores the fact that the pipe is no more there.
This behavior would be hard to avoid. Have you tried the foll
> On mye linux mandrake machine the echo.1 manpage looks weird. This patch
> fixes it.
[...]
> -\NNN
> +\\NNN
[...]
> -\a
> +\\a
Thanks for the report. I believe this has already been fixed in a
later release. The sh-utils package uses the help2man program which
produces the man pages from the
> As a programmer, I often encounter dates in the time_t format
> (e.g. 983370715), and I'd like the 'date' command to understand them
> and to display them in a more readable way. Unfortunately, GNU date
> seems to provide no way (no documented way, at least) to use that
> format as input.
>
>
>Is it a bug in sleep() ?
[...]
> sleep(8); // still interrupted
> Although i am disabling the cancel signal
> But still sleep is getting interrupted ?
Thanks for the report. But you are confusing the operating system
kernel system call sl
> We are porting a product, whose install script uses the processor name
> as part of a filename.On the box that we have, we are seeing
> uname -p give: unknown and uname -a gives:
> Linux linux1 2.2.14-12 #1 Tue Apr 25 13:04:07 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
>
> (the system date is not set
> I have two linux machines with redhat 7.0 and its korean derivative.
> Two have the same hostid.
> What's the problem.
> There is no problem in readhat 6.2.
>
> Thanks for your effort.
>
> ---
> Sung-IL Kang
> KAIST in Korea
The hostid command is only a wrapper around the gethostid() kernel
> the su command usually keeps track of the persons who have used the su
> in /var/adm/sulog in almost all the unix versions
>
> but could not find it here
>
> Using RH 7.0 K 2.2.16-22
>
> what is the fix for this ?
The GNU sh-utils version of su shipped by Redhat logs to syslogd which
has be
> Hi, there is no way (only bootup-BIOS) to
> change the system-time (hardwareclock).
>
> Is this right ?? (suse Linux 7.1)
Read the man page for "hwclock" (historically aka /sbin/clock). [I
must remark that the hwclock man page stands out as exceptionally
good.]
Bob
_
> I'm having a problem with the "test" utility.
> I'm using Red Hat Linux v6.1 (Cartman) - Kernel 2.2.12-20 which I installed
> not long ago.
Which shell are you using? The test command is a builtin command of
the shell. Therefore it is important to know the shell.
There is also an external
> I have noticed very strange bahaviour of sleep() function.
> Here are two examples:
> /* Ex1 */
> printf("something1");
[...]
> /* Ex2 */
> printf("something1\n");
> Could you please expalin me the differences between given examples,
> except new lines \n in printf(). The "bug" is that in Ex1
> Thank you -- may be a Unix-like hint is welcome?
[...]
> SEE ALSO
>The full documentation for date is maintained as a Texinfo
>manual. If the info and date programs are properly
>installed at your site, the command
>
> info date
>
>should g
> date --version reports 2.0.
>
> the doc says date -u will set the time in UTC, but it does not work the same
> as date -s. For instance, date -s 1401 works fine; date -u 1901 does not.
Those two options are independent. -u is not a replacement for -s.
-u modifies the behavior of -s, and other
> Both username hehe and #hehe don't exist
>
> [freax@freax freax]$ su hehe
> su: user hehe does not exist
> [freax@freax freax]$ su #hehe
> Password:
> su: incorrect password
> [freax@freax freax]$
Thanks for the report. But that is not a bug. The behavior you
report has nothing to do with
> Apologies for sending this un-analysed - I couldn't find documentation for
> how to pre-check this before sending it on. I got the email address from
> sleep --help in Bash.
>
> I got a stackdump in sleep, running Bash on W2000, which I attach.
>
> If you can point me at instructions that wou
> I'll try to change place of "su" form /bin to /home/specuser/bin for =
> security.
> (mv /bin/su /home/specuser/bin )
> then I have logged myself like specuser and I've tried to use "su" ex. : =
> su (enter)
> =
>
> | However, I think you have uncovered a different bug.
> |
> | date -u -s 1401
> | Wed Apr 18 20:01:00 UTC 2001
> | date -u -s '1401 UTC'
> | Wed Apr 18 14:01:00 UTC 2001
>
> Thanks to both of you for the reports.
> Bob, what version of date are you using? And on what type of system?
> I took over administration of a server and one of the users on that system
> use gdate in his scripts. I am settinng up a new server and I will have to
> migrate everything to this new server. The previous administrator did not
> leave any src files for me to recompile gdate on my new server,
> So, putting in the -u flag didn't help. I tried testing several systems
[...]
> bash-2.03# src/date --version
> date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
In all cases I saw the version was 2.0. If possible you should try
the newer 2.0.11. I believe there have been some fixes since 2.0
which might improve your
> I am writing a script and appear completely unable to employ expr.
>
> It works for plus but for no other operators. I need *.
Are you forgetting that * is a shell metacharacter and would need to
be protected from shell expansion? Check this with echo.
echo expr 2 * 3
You want to quote th
> $ rpm -qf `which echo`
> sh-utils-2.0-13
The 'which' command will always report external commands. But the
shell has internal replacements for many external commands. The
'echo' command is one of those that is typically an internal shell
command unless you force it otherwise.
type echo
e
> 5.7 root->sjrd1# su - smuser
> Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.7 Generic October 1998
> $ which ps
> /usr/ucb/ps
> 5.7 root->sjrd1# /usr/bin/su - smuser
> Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.7 Generic October 1998
> $ which ps
> /usr/bin/ps
One part that is important to understanding what is happening
> Under Linux 7.0 with bash 2.04.11:
1. You should report this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrong list. But an honest mistake. And of
course we have the best support over here. :-)
2. What you are seeing is considered a feature by many. As an old
timer I don't lik
> When nohup runs a program whose output is a terminal, it redirects
> stdout and stderr to a file named nohup.out in the current
> directory.
So far so good.
> What would stop someone from creating a symlink called nohup.out
> that points to /etc/passwd or some other important file, and then
>
> It has been my silent assumption that both implementations would
> behave the same (for sake of compatibility).
You are correct. But pursuing the shell internal version would have
led you to bug-bash instead of the external version leading you to
bug-sh-utils. :-)
Bob
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> I believe I have found a bug in the version of GNU 'date'
> distributed with RedHat 7.1.
>
> === Version return: ===
> date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
There have been many fixes to date in the latest test beta releases.
If it would be possible for you to test these I am hoping you will
find your pro
> I am afraid I stumbled on a bug in date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0, running on RedHat
> 7.1 (RPM sh-utils-2.0-13) or Solaris 2.6 (installed from sources in
There have been many fixes to date in the latest test beta releases.
If it would be possible for you to test these I am hoping you will
find your p
> Is there a way to get wild character support in the file-exist test =
> expression, I was able to do this in SCO's sh shell, but bash on linux =
> doesnt seem to support it.
> For example:
> if [ -f mystuff*.zip ]
> then
> echo "mystuff files exist"
> fi
> Paul Meyers
> Systems Administrator
>
> 1st of all, I am very much delighted to use the GNU
> tools that I downloaded from www.cygnus.com.
>
> Here is a bug report on BASH command 'which' and
> probably related 'chmod' and/or 'ls -ls' as well.
Thank you for your excellently prepared bug report. It really stands
out as compared to
Jonathan
> According to the man page su should assume USER is root if none is
> given.
>
> This used to work but having installed ximian it no longer does and I
> need to explicitly add -l to the command line to su to root.
>
> If I just enter su the password is validated but I am still the ori
Jonathan
> This is a fresh install of Linux Mandrake 8.1 on an i586 and the output in an
> XTerm window.
> :Fri 05:16:58:~> id
> uid=501(jon) gid=505(jon)
> groups=505(jon),22(cdrom),43(usb),80(cdwriter),81(audio),501(xgrp)
> :Fri 05:16:58:~> su root
> Password:
> :Fri 05:16:58:~> id
> uid=501(jo
> My attempts to set the system date on my system have failed with the
> following command:
>
> [root@alex log]# date -s 10200710
> date: invalid date `10200710'
Thanks for your report. But you are just confusing the old style date
format MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss] which is a long set of numbers pa
> I am porting an application from HP-UX to Linux
> the sleep call does not work as it should.
You have asked a question which I am putting in the FAQ list.
> In man 3 sleep is declared to accept unsigned in sec. but it does not. (
> 2^32 - 1 sec )
But if you are having a problem with sleep(3)
> This is rather interesting:
[...]
> [jyp@lavred jyp]$date --version
> date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
If you are using date version 2.0 or earlier that is certainly
possible. A large number of bug fixes and improvements went into the
sh-utils-2.0.11 around October 2000. Please install a newer versio
> Another buglet. With GNU date from sh-utils this time.
Thanks for the report. But there is no bug there. You are using date
incorrectly.
>date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
>date [OPTION] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
The traditional way to use date. Except that the yy is sometimes in
t
> I get the following outputs from seq, and they are obviosly contraversary:
>
> $ seq -s ' ' .9 .03 1.5
> 0.9 0.93 0.96 0.99 1.02 1.05 1.08 1.11 1.14 1.17 1.2 1.23 1.26 1.29 1.32
> 1.35 1.38 1.41 1.44 1.47 1.5
>
> $ seq -s ' ' .9 .03 1.2
> 0.9 0.93 0.96 0.99 1.02 1.05 1.08 1.11 1.14 1.17
>
> W
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to propose two new features to "sleep":
>
> 1) Sub-Second resolution
GNU sleep version 2.0a and later implements that. The NEWS file
contains:
[2.0a]
* sleep accepts floating point arguments on command line
And the info page includes:
Historical implementations of `
> no help in logname --help
Perhaps you are using a different version of logname? This seems to
be implemented. --Bob
logname --help
Usage: logname [OPTION]...
Print the name of the current user.
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
Repor
> When the login screen appears after booting if I press the right
> arrow on my keyboard, which places [C in the username space then
> press enter to type in the password, the case of the letters changes
> to uppercase.
This is probably the way it is supposed to work. The login program
tries to
> I have two systems (Dell GX 240, RH 7.2 2.4.7-10 kernel). THe hostid
> output is same for both!
Interesting.
> system 1.
>
> Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:5B:7C:32:EC
> hostid: 7f0100
>
> system 2:
> Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:5B:7C:32:F3
> hostid: 7f0100
>
> How this can happen?
The hostid program
> I'm using "su" (GNU sh-utils) version 2.0 on a RedHat Linux 6.2 box. I also
> have OpenSSH 2.9.9p2 running on this box. I wanted to do remote monitoring
> of this system's messages, so I logged in using a normal user account then
> did a "su --command='tail -100f /var/log/messages' root".
>
>
> I use debian woody with kernel 2.4.17, gnome and gnome-terminal.
>
> who doesn't report anything, as nobody was logged in.
> I use --login option of gnome-terminal but nothing.
> Even if I use "su -" it doesn't report nothing.
>
> the files utmp and wtmp have the following permissions
>
> -r
> Are you aware that uname -a gives incorrect output? or rather missing
> the -p, --processor print the host processor type feature?
Note that the -p option is not standard. For portable applications
you should avoid using that option. In fact the uname functionality
is such that portable scr
> > Note that the -p option is not standard. For portable applications
> > you should avoid using that option. In fact the uname functionality
> Well as both -s and -p are present it would seem sensible that they
> worked. If there is an issue with it not working why is it present in a
> brok
> This is a somewhat frivolous bug, but my friends and I are wondering why
> su defaults to user 'root' instead of to Unix user id 0. That is, if I
> change the user name of the Unix account with id 0, su no longer
> defaults correctly to that user name.
>
> Any thoughts on the rationale behind t
> the current dirname tool does not support backslash support. This
> patch fixes this.
- slash = strrchr (path, '/');
+ slash = strrchr (path, delim);
+ if (slash == NULL)
+delim = '\\';
+slash = strrchr (path, delim);
I do not believe this is valid. It appears to say, if no / found
> Right after I run vi or less, my session does no local echo, nor do I get
> carriage returns or linefeeds.
> My platform is Windows 2000. I did not compile the source; I used binaries
> from your download site.
> Any clues?
Sounds like your version of vi is misconfigured and does not restore
> I played with seq and found it quit usefull.
> Can I file two enhancement requests ?
Suggestions are always welcome.
> (1) My version speaks German and therefore (I guess) there is no decimal
> point in reals but a decimal komma .
> This is good and correct if the numbers are used in a
>Probles description:
>
> I tried to send data from Linux /dev/ttyS0 to a SCO unix serial
> port. The two serial ports are connected with a NULL MODEM.
> If XON/XOFF flow control is used, I set the linux /dev/ttyS0 with:
>
> ( stty 9600 ixon ixoff -crtscts cs8 ;
> whil
JR
> is it possible with date to set the time it shall display with the number
> of seconds, one gets from the output of:
>
> ' %s seconds since 00:00:00, Jan 1, 1970 (a GNU extension)'
Yes it is possible. This is documented in the manual. Here is the
pertinent section.
To convert su
> does GNU GCC (Cygwin for Windows) support 64-bit functions?
> how do i turn them on?
> how can i display a 64-bit integer using printf?
Check with the Cygwin folks.
http://cygwin.com/
Bob
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> I do have some problems with the molpro quantum chemistry program
> exiting due to Signal 1 (Hangup) even though it is run through
> nohup. The hangup-exit is reproducible and happens after the program
> is running for hours or days.
Why is the program being sent a SIGHUP? That normally happen
Thank your for your report. It is most appreciated. However what you
have seen is not a bug but normal program behavior.
> in date's manual page i read:
>
> -s, --set=STRING
>
> but i could change the date only with:
>
> date -s22:00:00 +%T
>
> why the equal sign if?
It is not clear to me
> According to the man page for echo, --help and --version will both
> generate information from the echo command itself. However, in
> accoring-to-the-man-page version 2.0 (included with RH 7.0), issuing the
> command "echo --help" results in the output of "--help", and the command
> "echo --
> ls --help
> ls --version
>
> don't work as documented in the man page
> ls --version
> is suppose to display version information
> all it displays is "--version"
>
> ls --help
> is suppose to show the man page and exit
Then the odds are good that you are not using GNU version of those
util
> kuiper@dsnra2:~/tcl$ nice -ADJUST xdos
Thanks for the report. The documentation perhaps is not completely
clear that ADJUST is meant to be a number.
> -ADJUST increment priority by ADJUST first
> Range goes from -20 (highest priority) to 19 (lowest).
Several traditional c
Randy
> I have just found a bug in the date command.
Thanks for the report. Could you also report to the email list the
version of the date command you are using. There have been many bugs
fixed in recent versions. You might still be using an older version.
If you are using date version 2.0
Jim is away from his keyboard for a few days. In lieu of his
authoritative answers let me provide some information.
> ** sh-utils-2.0
> ** chkrootkit-0.35 (chkrootkit.org)
>
> 'chkrootkit' says that 'date' (sh-utils) contains a rootkit. Is this a
> false positive or not?
Since the GNU utilitie
> > > ls --help
> > > ls --version
> > >
> > > don't work as documented in the man page
> > > ls --version
> > > is suppose to display version information
> > > all it displays is "--version"
> I made a slipup in typing its echo that doesn't work right
Please check out the following FAQ on th
> I found the following problem with nice 2.0.11:
If you would be so kind as to report the 'nice --version' output to
the list it would be appreciated. I believe you will find that it is
not the GNU version.
> with tcsh
If you are using tcsh then you are using the tcsh built-in version and
NOT
> is this a joke? or poor usage of a man-page template? or an honest
> mistake?
Generally folks on the bug list always try to make sure people get a
reasonable response to bug reports submitted. But I am sorry that I
cannot discern what issue you are trying to report in the mail that
you submitt
> We have had a long discussion and I have finally come to the conclusion that env
>cannot envoke any interpreter with an argumetn, in spite of what the man and info
>pages say
Thank you for your report. However, you are confusing the operating
systems actions with those of env. What you are
> I'm not 100% sure this is a bug, but I can't find an explanation for this
> behavior in either the env texinfo file or on the sh-utils FAQ page. If
> you run this command from the shell prompt:
>
> echo 'print "foo\n"' | /usr/bin/env perl -w
>
> env works as expected. However, the corr
> Possible bug with 'who', or kernel?
Possibly neither.
> I have a couple of entries listed when I do a 'who' that I can't seem to get
> rid of (other than rebooting). I've even gone so far as to take my system
> down to INIT runlevel 1 (single-user mode) and kill all extraneous processes
>
> cp001:~ # du -sh bonnietmp.old/ ; ls bonnietmp.old/*log* ; rm -rf bonniet=
> mp.old/*log*
> 43M bonnietmp.old
> bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
> bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
> cp001:~ #
You are seeing a common shell expansion limit. You are hitting
ARG_MAX. Here is an FAQ
> It seems that su accepts valid password (unix) more than 8 characters. But
> it just reads first 8 chars and authenticates if the user name and first 8
> chars of the password is a valid user account. My colleguge has detected it.
I did not look at the code but I do not believe that su is trunc
> When i logged in as the user and do ls, it is saying permission denied. It
> was working fine before.I don't know what to do. Please let me know where
> and which files to modify to fix this problem.
There are endless reasons why that might happen. You probably set
your permissions incorrect
Thanks for your report. There does indeed seem to be a problem on
HP-UX. I am filing a defect against it.
> ENTW-HP: /home/user/work # test -d man???
> ENTW-HP: /home/user/work # echo $?
> 0
> ENTW-HP: /home/user/work # echo $USERDIR/work/man???
> /home/user/work/man000 /home/user/work/man001 /
Thanks for your report.
> i really wish to have option in tee utility for switching input/output
> to be unbuffered. Now, teeing process ouput breaks "interactive
> watching". You do not see anything until tee's input buffer is filled.
Are you sure the problem is with 'tee' and not the comman
>
>
>
In the future it would be most appreciated if you did not send HTML
mail to mailing lists. Plain text is strongly recommended.
http://www.expita.com/nomime.html
> The 'who -u' command on SCO Unix and AIX both issue a base PID along with
> the user, tty, date/time, & idle-time. I am
>Hi. I'm from Brazil. My name is Carlos Fontoura. I'd like to report
> a bug in "expr" command. I couldn't execute the following line:
>
>expr 3 * 3
>
>Maybe there's something I'm forgetting to do. I hope so.
Yes, you are forgetting that * is a shell wildcard.
Try
> date +%s --date="20380120"
>
> gets Invalid date?
> Why can't I get the date in seconds for 20th of Janurary 2038?
Because your operating system is using a 32-bit value for time_t and
that date overflows the value that it can hold in seconds since Jan 1,
1970. This is one of the reasons why Y
> Hey, I was just trying to use nohup this way:
>
> nohup cvsbackupthebackup
>
> where cvsbackupthebackup is just an alias - it looks like it does not
> correclty interpret the alias (it's an rsync command) -
>
> I'd like to nohup and & my command so I can backup cvs, and logout and
> go ho
> during developing a new shell script; I detected an erroneous behaviour
> of the printf command.
Thank you for your report. But I believe you are unaware that leading
zeros indicate octal encoding. Neither 8 nor 9 are valid octal
values. And of course 010 octal is 9 decimal and so on.
> pri
> > during developing a new shell script; I detected an erroneous behaviour
> > of the printf command.
> > printf fails on hex conversion for 008 and 009 and gives wrong values
> > for higher numbers, if the digit to convert contains leading zeroes.
> > Without leading zeroes the conversion succee
> i.e the year is wrong. I started thinking about this from the
> gnu ftp site ftp.gnu.org where entries like
> If I can be of any help let me know. Here is some information
> Linux 2.4.18
> i686
> gcc-3.0.4
> glibc-2.2.5
If you are using date version 2.0 or earlier as your sub
Hunter Peress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-04 05:58:56 -0500]:
> SUGGEST:
>
> give basename an option to do the opposite:
>
> EG: basename /home/lalal/lolo/sdds gives:
> sdds
>
> but
> basename -newoption gives:
> /home/lalal/lolo
I believe what you are looking for is 'dirname'.
dirnam
Michael Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-16 00:02:36 -0400]:
> date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0 gives incorrect result.
> date (GNU sh-utils) 1.16 and perl are ok.
>
> Please advise how should I fix date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.
Version 2.0 is very old. Please update. Here is an FAQ entry on that
particula
Herm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-03 11:05:41 +0200]:
> when generating a timestamp with
> date --date='2002-03-08 08:50:02' +%Y%m%d%k%M%S
> i get a blank in the response:
> 20020308 85002
>
> after time has raised it looks like this:
> date --date='2002-03-08 18:50:02' +%Y%m%d%k%M%S
> 2002030818
Matthew Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-05 01:05:33 -0400]:
> i'm using date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0 and i'm not sure if i'd be permitted to
> upgrade to another version, but my question is
> is there a common way to supply date --date with 'time in seconds since
> the Epoch' instead of a MMDD o
Richard Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-12 01:29:56 +0100]:
> Sorry if this is already reported.
>
> In "man date", the %S option is listed as from 0-60, not 0-59
>
> I have tested, and it seems to be actually 0-59 ie 'round down to the
> nearest second', rather than (erroneously) 'round to
Michel Bouchet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-12 17:36:08 +0900]:
> I noticed the folowing under Linux Mandrake 8.2, with the expr command :
>
> [eagle@WA_Mozart eagle]$ expr 2 * 3
> expr: syntax error
> [eagle@WA_Mozart eagle]$
>
> Shouldn't the answer be 6 and not an error message ?
No. You ar
xx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-10 14:22:28 +0200]:
> F.i. #md /usr/local/test . Then a chroot /usr/local/test (as root)
> merely reports the error Cannot execute /bin/bash no such file
> or directory, though "/bin/bash" is correctly located. Chroot reads the
> correct SHELL environment entry.
> "
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