You all must be tired of me by now, but I've got YAQ (yet another
question) on ld. (At least I have been bringing up new topics to the
list, and they are linux related.)
I have been trying to compile octave for a while and am stumbling on an
odd failure (I think) with ld.
About 20 minutes
On Jul 23, 2008, at 09:36, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
libpcre.so and libpcre.a are in /lib64. Why doesn't ld find it?,
especially since I did pass the argument -L/lib64 ?
Or am I looking in the wrong place?
For giggles I tried /usr/bin/ld -L/lib64 -lpcre and get
/usr/bin/ld: skipping
This is just a nit but I've never understood the meaning/usage
of the $_ variable in bash. I did RTFM and it says:
When bash invokes an external command, the variable $_ is set to
the full file name of the command and passed to that command in its
environment.
...which seems to describe
From: Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:57:14 -0400
When bash invokes an external command, the variable $_ is set to
the full file name of the command and passed to that command in its
environment.
...which seems to describe one piece of how it actually
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From: Bill McGonigle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:54 PM
To: Labitt, Bruce
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Subject: Re: YAQ on /usr/bin/ld
On Jul 23, 2008, at 09:36, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
libpcre.so and libpcre.a are in /lib64. Why
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Michael ODonnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is just a nit but I've never understood the meaning/usage
of the $_ variable in bash. I did RTFM and it says:
When bash invokes an external command, the variable $_ is set to
the full file name of the command
On Jul 23, 2008, at 13:21, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
/lib
is seen before /lib64. What does this mean?
well, that reflects the search order, but that shouldn't be a problem
if it finds the correct one. If ldconfig is seeing it, ld should
know about it...
WRT adding paths, how does one name
Hello,
A co-worker and I were talking about various ways to do 'backups' to try and
prevent data loss. The topic came around to a file system we had used
at a previous job. I can't remember the specifics, but we believe it was
a Network Appliance system.
One of the cool features it offered was
I believe JRV has a script which does roughly what you're asking about,
though I think it's a grandfathered setup in groups of three rather than a
month... IOW if run hourly it would keep the past three hours, then 3/6/9
hours ago, then 27/54/81 hours ago, etc. - I think he's on-list, in which
The filesystem code sometimes forbids hard links for directories;
I think ext3 is one example where it's not allowed.
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On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 17:48 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the cool features it offered was a series of hourly, nightly and
a monthly backup of files. We kind of surmised that it was some sort of
hard linking of the same file name in a different directory... i.e.
Check out rsnapshot
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 05:48:10PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the cool features it offered was a series of hourly, nightly and
a monthly backup of files. We kind of surmised that it was some sort of
hard linking of the same file name in a different directory... i.e.
~/foo.txt
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:48:10 +
A co-worker and I were talking about various ways to do 'backups' to try and
prevent data loss. The topic came around to a file system we had used
at a previous job. I can't remember the specifics, but we believe it was
a
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:39:07PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:01 PM, mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(fscking scalix
requires a complete copy of the mail store to extract even a single
message for restore, which is nothing if not a massive PITA)
Wow, it
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Michael ODonnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When bash invokes an external command, the variable $_ is set to
the full file name of the command and passed to that command in its
environment.
That appears to function as described. I wrote a small program to
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 1:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
A co-worker and I were talking about various ways to do 'backups' to try
and
prevent data loss. The topic came around to a file system we had used
at a previous job. I can't remember the specifics, but we believe it was
a
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:27:09 -0400
From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As Thomas Charon hinted at, it appears to start out set to the last
external command, but then it gets set to the last word of the
previous command line. I dunno if that's by design, or just an
accident of
OK - I now believe all observed behaviors are explainable
if that passage from TFM:
When bash invokes an external command, the variable
$_ is set to the full file name of the command
and passed to that command in its environment.
...is augmented thus:
Internally, bash uses $_ as
The _ variable appears to be overloaded... with different meanings
in different circumstances. Qutoing the bash man page:
_ At shell startup, set to the absolute file name of the shell
or shell script being executed as passed in the argument list.
Subsequently, expands to the last
It looks like it's time to switch tv service. I am using basic analog
cable and Comcrap has been eliminating channels from the lineup to use
the bandwidth for their digital tv service.
Of course they kept all of the ^$*-ing shopping channels in tact.
To sum it up, comcrap customers are forced
To sum it up, comcrap customers are forced to pay to solve their
technical problem.
This would be true if you were using analog OTA channels, you still
need a digital tuner.
Anybody out there using a digital tuner card (pci) with mythtv or
perhaps a fourth friggin box ?
I know Kenta is
Travis Roy wrote:
To sum it up, comcrap customers are forced to pay to solve their
technical problem.
This would be true if you were using analog OTA channels, you still
need a digital tuner.
but I'm not so it still is.
Anybody out there using a digital tuner card (pci) with mythtv or
For added fun, try this series of commands:
echo foo
echo /$_/
echo /$_/
echo /$_/
echo /$_/
-- Ben
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For added fun, try this series of commands:
echo foo
echo /$_/
And given what's been learned (ie. that $_ and !$ are
equivalent in this context) it should now be no surprise
that the same result is seen with echo /!$/
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Frank DiPrete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It looks like it's time to switch tv service. I am using basic analog
cable and Comcrap has been eliminating channels from the lineup to use
the bandwidth for their digital tv service.
Obtain (e.g., purchase) TVs or
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can get TiVo on yhe Motorola set top box.
A friend of mine got that, and I spent a few minutes trying it out.
My cursory impresion: It appears to basically be the Motorola/Comcast
DVR box, with a TiVo theme or skin in the
Full disclosure: I hate Comcast.
You're not alone. The Worst Company In America competition
at consumerist.com is now down to CountryWide vs. ComCast:
http://tinyurl.com/65wcns
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On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 18:25 -0400, Frank DiPrete wrote:
It looks like it's time to switch tv service. I am using basic analog
cable and Comcrap has been eliminating channels from the lineup to use
the bandwidth for their digital tv service.
Of course they kept all of the ^$*-ing shopping
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