On Wednesday 06 May 2015 09:52:48 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 06 May 2015 05:43:22 Erik Christiansen wrote: > > Apropos the useless manpages; there are a couple of those about, > > deliberately left uninformative by one or two politicised developer > > groups who wish to see "info" replace "man".
Sounds like we need to re-educate them. I have some white ash that would work just dandy for that. But the Emerald ash borer is killing them, so I'd probably use a less valuable wood. > > When it's clear I've > > found one of them, I always arc up info as a second stab. If you > > don't have a grub "info" page, then an apt-get of the grub-doc > > package will probably yield paydirt. In re the info command: A useless POC. pinfo blows it clear into the next drainage, where I have been wishing for a gully washer to carry it completely away. The commands to make info work intuitively were left completely out. Pinfo Just Works(TM) exactly as one would expect. > > > > Incidentally, there's no memtest86 on this recently installed debian > > 7.8.0. I'd have to do an apt-get before adding it to the boot > > options. Hopefully you won't have that bother as well. Its present and acccounted for on this wheezy install. Nothing special was done, but the install disk was from debian, not our hybride-iso. Thanks Erik. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
