Re: Notable bash $PATH behavior trivia

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael O'Donnell) writes: Interesting; I can't find such behavior specified in the man page for BASH, so I wonder where would such documented behavior actually be documented? SUSv2 says: # PATH # # The sequence of path prefixes that certain functions and utilities #

I can't change my password

I just created a new account on a redhat 8 box. When I try to change the passwd I get the following error: #passwd derek Changing password for user derek. New password: Retype new password: passwd: User not known to the underlying authentication module This happens if I try to change any of

Re: Notable bash $PATH behavior trivia

IMNSHO.On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, at 9:41am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not unless the documented behavior is otherwise... this behavior is the normal, expected behavior of bourne-derivative shells. Is it that the bourne shell exhibited this seemingly buggy behavior and bash maintained it for the

Re: Notable bash $PATH behavior trivia

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IMNSHO, Bash breaks compatibility in so many ways Can you cite examples? I'm having difficulty recalling very many important incompatibilities. Thanks, --kevin -- Time? I've got nothing _but_ time. -- Buckaroo Banzai

Re: I can't change my password

Derek Doucette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just created a new account on a redhat 8 box. When I try to change the passwd I get the following error: #passwd derek Changing password for user derek. New password: Retype new password: passwd: User not known to the underlying authentication

Re: Notable bash $PATH behavior trivia

Useful, I didn't know that. Thanks. Erik Michael O'Donnell wrote: I just noticed that I was able to execute programs in the current directory without prefixing their names with ./ and without having . in my $PATH. After saying WTF? a number of times I finally figured out that it's related to

Re: [osf_alums] Relaying file ops to userland

The problems with using a named pipe are: [...etc...] Right. FYI, I'm developing some support infrastructure that works in conjunction with certain apps that won't even be aware that they're being helped, so it's a requirement that existing file-access behaviors be unchanged. Thanks

Re: Notable bash $PATH behavior trivia

In a message dated: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 14:00:43 EST Derek Martin said: It's even documented in the man page for Paul's beloved ksh 88: Two things: 1) it stands to reason that ksh, ksh88 and even pdksh would have this same behavior, since they're all direct descendants of the original

Reasons to avoid MS website

Found this, thought others might be interested :) http://www.lugod.org/microsoft/ -- Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239 53F1 28EE It may look like I'm just sitting here doing nothing, but I'm really actively waiting for all my problems

Re: Notable bash $PATH behavior trivia

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, at 2:00pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not a bug. Or, at least, it is a documented bug. :-) -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person,

Re: I can't change my password

I fixed the problem. I found out that we were not using shadow passwords, ran pwconv, and magically it works ok. I don't why this occured adding a user and changing the password when they weren't shadowed. Derek Doucette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just created a new account on a

GPG? What is this?

Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239 53F1 28EE What's that Key fingerprint, with all the earlier talk about GPG I'm curious.. It doesn't look like GPG ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Linux Telephone Systems?

We're looking into phone system options, and natrually, I thought that a Linux based server whould work nicely. Basically, any research that I've looked for dosen't turn out to be anything that i can use. I'd like to know if the following is possible, and if so what hardware I would need to

RE: Linux Telephone Systems?

I'd like to have the ability to have the incoming calls use callerid data to display customers information when they call. Just a webpage that gets updated ever 3 mins or somthing, depending on call volume. This should be possible, I know somebody that hacked some CallerID stuff into his

Re: Mozilla and anti-aliased fonts

On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 21:08, Paul Iadonisi wrote: [snip] could be worked on. To make matters worse, the *same* *lone* person, Christian (Schaller, I think) was the one doing the all the work. Argh...I even had the first name wrong. It's Christoper Blizzard that was doing that work. The