From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:28:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:28:43 -0500 Received: from james.kalifornia.com ([208.179.0.2]:12079 "EHLO james.kalifornia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:28:34 -0500 Message-ID: <3A5E3389.DAA29EAC@linux.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:28:25 -0800 From: David Ford Organization: Blue Labs X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-ac2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Juchem CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bugreporting script - second try In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------B4392D0615DF488301B50D7C" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------B4392D0615DF488301B50D7C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Matthias Juchem wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Richard Torkar wrote: > > > I do not have any PPP, and no kdb installed on that machine, neither do I > > have procinfo. Shouldn't it say N/A or not found instead of the above? The > > ppp part is not true ;-). > > > Other thing I thought about was the Ctrl-D thingy when entering text. > > What if ppl don't have any text to enter? Shouldn't is say on each line > > that if you don't have anything to write then just write N/A and press > > Ctrl-D? Because pressing Ctrl-D directly doesn't do any good. > > Could you please check the new version here: > > http://www.brightice.de/src/bugreport.sh problem: exits top level shell if no filename is specified, annoyance aesthetics: cat: /proc/scsi/scsi: No such file or directory, simple aesthetics: GNU make 3.79.1, problem: Linux libc5 C Library 5@.. aesthetics: Linux libc6 C Library 2.2, problem: Linux C++ library 27@.. problem: Net-tools problem: PPP file aesthetics: .config, recommend stripping the ^CONFIG_ and =, combine all 'y' and 'm' example fix for C library: sed \ '/C [lL]ibrary /!d; s/[^0-9]*\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/' \ /lib/libc.so.6 example fix for C++ library: basename $(/usr/bin/ls -f /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libg++.so.27 \ |gawk '{print $NF}') example fix for GNU make: make --version|sed '/version/!d; s/[^0-9]*\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/' example fix for net-tools: 1) hostname from sh-utils: hostname --version|sed '/GNU sh/!d; s/[^0-9]*\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/' 2) ifconfig from net-tools: ifconfig --version 2>&1|sed '/net\-tools/!d; s/[^0-9]*\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/' pppd requires a proper /etc/ppp/options file before printing the version, if you have devfs and a disconnecting modem, i.e. usb modem, it must be attached for the /dev entry or pppd will refuse to run. I prefer using e2fsck to report the version: e2fsck -V 2>&1 |sed '/e2fsck/!d; s/e2fsck [^0-9]*\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/' --- -d --------------B4392D0615DF488301B50D7C Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="david.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for David Ford Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="david.vcf" begin:vcard n:Ford;David x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:www.blue-labs.org adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:david@blue-labs.org title:Blue Labs Developer note;quoted-printable:GPG key: http://www.blue-labs.org/david@nifty.key=0D=0A x-mozilla-cpt:;9952 fn:David Ford end:vcard --------------B4392D0615DF488301B50D7C-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/