Re: Investigating /etc/profile

2005-04-08 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 19:56 -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: I also cannot mentally expand the expression $PATHVARIABLE=${!PATHVARIABLE:+:${!PATHVARIABLE}} Can't blame you - that's pretty ugly. I've seen (and written) worse though, so let's break it down: The exclamation marks are like a pointer -

Keyboard

2005-04-08 Thread Czifra Péter
Hello!I've got a problem with my keyboard. The Shift-e doesn't work. When I push the buttons doesn't happend anything. How can I correct this problem? The E works in application for exaple in vim.I use the LFS 6.0 and my keyboar is an normal hungarian keyboard, with special hungarian characters.

Re: problems with courier

2005-04-08 Thread James Iwanek
Jason Gurtz wrote: I've seen some other people have issues when there is multiple domains etc... going on with courier, which can be a tad difficult to set up. You might want to give dovecot a try. I found wu-imap easy to setup but it is slow among other things. Sorry I can't give more explicit

Re: Investigating /etc/profile

2005-04-08 Thread Dan McGhee
Simon Geard wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 19:56 -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: I also cannot mentally expand the expression $PATHVARIABLE=${!PATHVARIABLE:+:${!PATHVARIABLE}} Can't blame you - that's pretty ugly. I've seen (and written) worse though, so let's break it down: The exclamation marks

Package Management Rears Its Ugly Head

2005-04-08 Thread Dan McGhee
As I prepare to go further into BLFS--I'm still installing the initial start-up configuration--I keep thinking about package management. I've been an rpm fan since I started Linux. I particularly like the rpm -U feature. However, the hint more_control_and_pkg_man makes a lot of sense. And

Re: Package Management Rears Its Ugly Head

2005-04-08 Thread Nick Matteo
On Friday 08 April 2005 20:27, Dan McGhee wrote: First Question: I'm not a fan of keeping unused sources around. But it seems to me that the only way to update an application, when you're using sources, is to uninstall the original and install the update. If I just keep the Makefile for