Re: Reading /VAR/LOG Files????
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Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> <snip> Ron Johnson writes:
>
>> $ dpkg -S `which faillog` login: /usr/bin/faillog
>
>> Looks like you gotta keep it...
>
> - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA
>
> Hi again Ron. still haven't solved my mplayer issue but will post
> again as soon as I resolve some of these little issues that have
> bugged me for months. However, I'm confused about the dpkg -S
> `which faillog` which asks for > more input. I have only one
Since you didn't paste in the exact command and it's error message,
we can't *begin* to help you.
> faillog, I think. Can only read a few bites from log which is 1.5
> MB in size. How do I see the rest of the 1.5 MB faillog file? I
> even tried dpkg -S `tiger faillog' which spouted out MB's of
tiger?
> package names and related paths for just about every package I
> have installed. Since I can't get any output for apt-cache search
> or wajig show or list how do you know its a required package? So
> I'll know? I could use some enlightenment!
$ which faillog
/usr/bin/faillog
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/faillog
login: /usr/bin/faillog
$ dpkg -S `which faillog`
login: /usr/bin/faillog
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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