Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-26 23:24, Mathias Bauer wrote: * Mr Smiley wrote on 2014-01-26 at 20:56 (+): cp -Rp /path/to/sourcedir/A/* /path/to/destinationdir/B If you don't put a / after B it will copy all files to a file called B No, obviously not.

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/27/14, Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com wrote: On Sun, 1/26/14, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: As I said to Zenaan, it is obviously time for me to bite the bullet of rsync. It seems a significantly better tool for the purpose than cp. Maybe you'd find grsync gui less intimidating

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/27/14, Mathias Bauer mba...@gmx.org wrote: * Mr Smiley wrote on 2014-01-26 at 20:56 (+): cp -Rp /path/to/sourcedir/A/* /path/to/destinationdir/B If you don't put a / after B it will copy all files to a file called B No, obviously not. true So your above cp -Rp

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-26 Thread Jeff Bauer
On Sun, 1/26/14, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: As I said to Zenaan, it is obviously time for me to bite the bullet of rsync. It seems a significantly better tool for the purpose than cp. Some time ago I was using cp for bulk file copying, but was having some issues with

Re: missing package long descriptions

2014-01-26 Thread Brian
On Mon 27 Jan 2014 at 09:52:03 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 1/27/14, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: And if you comment out file:/// sources and uncomment the iiNet sources? No updating, of course. Package descriptions show again; similarly if I have both sources uncommented.

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-26 Thread Mathias Bauer
* Felix C. Stegerman wrote on 2014-01-26 at 23:58 (+0100): On 2014-01-26 23:24, Mathias Bauer wrote: * Mr Smiley wrote on 2014-01-26 at 20:56 (+): cp -Rp /path/to/sourcedir/A/* /path/to/destinationdir/B If you don't put a / after B it will copy all files to a file called B

bootpd usage and the server address.

2014-01-26 Thread peter
With this one line in /etc/bootptab, root@dalton:~# tail --lines=1 /etc/bootptab sparc2:sa=172.25.2.1:td=/tftpboot:hd=/:bf=AC190202.SUN4C:rp=/export/sparc2/root/: bootp complains about the address. root@dalton:~# bootpd -d9 bootpd: info(6): bootptab mtime: Sun Jan 26 15:33:54 2014 bootpd:

Re: missing package long descriptions

2014-01-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/27/14, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Mon 27 Jan 2014 at 09:52:03 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 1/27/14, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: And if you comment out file:/// sources and uncomment the iiNet sources? No updating, of course. Package descriptions show again;

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/27/14, Mathias Bauer mba...@gmx.org wrote: * Felix C. Stegerman wrote on 2014-01-26 at 23:58 (+0100): On 2014-01-26 23:24, Mathias Bauer wrote: * Mr Smiley wrote on 2014-01-26 at 20:56 (+): cp -Rp /path/to/sourcedir/A/* /path/to/destinationdir/B If you don't put a / after

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-26 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-01-27 02:04, Mathias Bauer wrote: * Felix C. Stegerman wrote on 2014-01-26 at 23:58 (+0100): On 2014-01-26 23:24, Mathias Bauer wrote: * Mr Smiley wrote on 2014-01-26 at 20:56 (+): cp -Rp /path/to/sourcedir/A/*

Re: Gnome unrunnable after upgrade to Wheezy (Was: Gnome 3 fail scenario)

2014-01-26 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Bob Bernstein wrote: I just upgraded squeeze to wheezy on a remote vps host, a Linode. Gnome will only launch as far as running the session provided by the gnome-session-fallback' package. Prior to installing _that_ package gnome's failure was sufficiently hard to

Need help configuring vsftpd with SSL + virtual users on Debian Wheezy

2014-01-26 Thread Blaine LaFreniere
I want to configure vsftpd to use virtual users, and have the connection made over SSL. Here's my config at /etc/vsftpd.conf: # Defaults from example config. listen=YES anonymous_enable=NO local_enable=YES write_enable=YES local_umask=022 anon_upload_enable=NO anon_mkdir_write_enable=NO

Re: Need help configuring vsftpd with SSL + virtual users on Debian Wheezy

2014-01-26 Thread Blaine LaFreniere
On 1/26/14, 6:50 PM, Blaine LaFreniere wrote: I want to configure vsftpd to use virtual users, and have the connection made over SSL. Here's my config at /etc/vsftpd.conf: # Defaults from example config. listen=YES anonymous_enable=NO local_enable=YES write_enable=YES local_umask=022

Re: Gnome unrunnable after upgrade to Wheezy (Was: Gnome 3 fail scenario)

2014-01-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Patrick Bartek wrote: Your system probably older, and lacks the hardware requirements to run GNOME 3 -- mine does, too -- and hence it drops to fallback mode. The problem is usually the graphics card. My machine, a virtual private server, has NO video card. I even ran

Re: Gnome unrunnable after upgrade to Wheezy (Was: Gnome 3 fail scenario)

2014-01-26 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sun, 26 Jan 2014, Patrick Bartek wrote: Your system probably older, and lacks the hardware requirements to run GNOME 3 -- mine does, too -- and hence it drops to fallback mode. The problem is usually the graphics card. My machine, a

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 23:24 +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: If the target directory *exists* the trailing slash will *not* be necessary On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 12:44 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: and yet there is the advantage of training the fingers Using the tab-key a / is automatically attached.

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-01-26 Thread Mihamina RKTMB
On 01/25/2014 05:17 AM, tom arnall wrote: Currently I am running ubuntu 12.04. I am unhappy with the speed of it. Any info/suggestions will be greatly appreciated. What actions are slow? - boot time? - window switch? - application launch? - web page rendering? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-26 Thread ghaverla
Your requirement (to skip hidden files and directories) is what is usually required. But, as a generic rule, you can use the echo command to help with analysing how the command line shell might expand a wild card. echo cp /path/to/src/* /path/to/dest some_tmp_file If I do this on my home

Re: i915: wheezy / jessie freeze under X

2014-01-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 09:09:43PM +0100, Ralf wrote: Hi, Three days ago wheezy began to freeze at the login prompt: no keyboard and often no mouse, it's a i915 laptop from asus. xorg.log loads the intel sandy bridge driver correctly, also other stuff like vesa_drv et fbdev_drv. AT the

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