On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:48:34 +, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk
wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:26:25PM +, Matthew King wrote:
Dig can easily look up any type of DNS record with the simple form:
$ dig fqdn rr
Moreover, when the fqdn is actually a CNAME, it will helpfully look up
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:21:01 +, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org
wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:14:30PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
I'm not sure whose fault this hateful incompetence is - the authors of scons,
or the authors of the package's SConstruct file. But, frankly, I don't care.
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 03:04:34PM +, Matthew King wrote:
make is a steaming heap of festering hate, with putrid, hate-filled
maggots writhing out of it.
Everything which has tried to replicate or improve upon it makes it
look attractive and appealing. Like OS X looks right up until the
Hi,
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 03:12:23PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
$ scons -f 'This file does not exist'
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons: warning: Ignoring missing SConscript 'This file does not exist'
File /usr/bin/scons, line 161, in module
scons: done reading SConscript
Why do you think I became root?
# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=33(video),100(users)
# yast2 sw_single
Absolute path to 'yast2' is '/sbin/yast2', so running it may require superuser
privileges (eg. root).
If that were in . I'd understand and appreciate, but this is so silly
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H.Merijn
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 03:12:23PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
$ make -f 'This file does not exist'
make: This file does not exist: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `This file does not exist'. Stop.
$ echo $?
2
$ sed -f 'This file does not exist'
sed:
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:43:58AM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
[...]
I suppose it's too much to ask for programs to return the *same* error
code (ENOENT comes to mind) when a file doesn't exist.
Why bother? It's not as if shell scripts ever bother to check for errors
anyway.
H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl wrote:
# yast2 sw_single
Absolute path to 'yast2' is '/sbin/yast2', so running it may require
superuser privileges (eg. root).
I entirely agree that this is utterly hateful. (For one thing, the
idea that there's a strong relationship between living in a
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 03:48:44PM +, Peter Corlett wrote:
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:43:58AM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
[...]
I suppose it's too much to ask for programs to return the *same* error
code (ENOENT comes to mind) when a file doesn't exist.
Why bother? It's not as if
* Aaron Crane hate...@aaroncrane.co.uk [2011-01-21 16:50]:
But the Bash source doesn't seem to contain relevant chunks of
that message, so I fear that, if you want to correctly
apportion blame, you should probably look elsewhere.
Yes. My first instinct would be to indict SELinux.
Regards,
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