Re: dpkg and shadow [and more]
Thought <krowan@eecs.wsu.edu> writes:
> Is there a way to make dpkg give me a list (output) of ALL the packages
> (installed and not installed) along with their descriptions? Even just
> the short one-liner descriptions?
less /var/lib/dpkg/available
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> Ok, here's another question about shadow..
Sorry, can't help here.
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> Here's a quick question: Why is my /home g+s staff?
> drwxrwsr-x 4 root staff 1024 Mar 19 23:05 /home/
I think it's so that people who aren't root but are in group staff can
make arbitrary directories under /home, and others can modify them;
but I don't know why you'd want that.
> Here's another quick question: I have an Iomega Zip drive,
Unfortunately I don't. :-(
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> Oh, I'd just like to mention that setting up tty-snoops to automatically
> snoop ttyp1 on tty7 (virtual console 7) all the way through ttyp6/tty12 is
> REALLY handy! I can spy on peoples with a press of a buttons! :)
Just remember this is only for the people wearing white hats... ;-)
> One of the main reasons I'm using zsh is because I love it's command
> completion and expansion behaviour, for example, **/* for every directory
> and subdirectory and everything within. I often use grep "something"
> **/*. My question is, is there a way to either remove the actual
> directories from the listing, or mute the "grep: blah: Is a directory"
> message?
grep "something" **/*(.)
Read zshexpn(1). Now read it again, because you definitely didn't
pick everything up the first time through.
When you think you understand that, try the Extended Completion part
of zshcompctl(1).
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> Anyway, that's it for today.....Well, for this morning at least... Well
> untill I reboot, okay?? :) Thanks again everyone
It's just as well Linux doesn't need to be rebooted often!
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Carey Evans <*> c.evans@clear.net.nz
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