Re: [newbie] what do these different things mean? KDE, Gnome, etc
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 18:19, Crak600 - Michael wrote: And one more question...what is ROOT and what is it used for? when would i ever have to use it and how do i get into ROOT? ROOT is used for adding programs or making changes, right? root is the superuser, as explained by all those nice people, but 'the root' is the base of your filesystem structure too. The filesystem is built in a tree: / |-boot -- /boot |-home -- /home | |-user1 -- /home/user1 | | |-somedir -- /home/user1/somedir | |-user2 -- /home/user2 |-usr -- /usr The root is the lowest level in the filesystem-structure ( / ), as the first slash in /home/user1/somedir/... Actually, I'm feeling a little insecure about this because no-one mentioned it, but I'm almost sure it's correct :-) Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] just when you think it's safe
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 05:05, Aron Smith wrote: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20030617/ap_on_hi_te/downloading_music Just when you think that Politicians can't get any dumber What a BS! I asked SABAM more information about mp3's and downloading music. (SABAM is the Belgian copyrights-company) - It is not illegal to download mp3's from the web - It is not illegal to own a nice mp3-collection - It is not illegal to use this collection for private use The only thing that's illegal is uploading mp3's or providing mp3's to third parties in any other way. But what is on the internet, is public property. So... 1/ Those people shouldn't be looking for a way to punnish downloaders, but they should look for a way to punnish the people who upload! 2/ Assuming that any mp3 is illegal, is vey wrong. I'm a musician myself, and it happens that I send my own mp3's to friends or fellow musicians. 3/ Checking what one is downloading, is a major attack on our privacy 4/ The music industry is complaining a lot, because their income decreases. But they were too high anyway. If an artist made 1 single, he used to get millions from CD's. Sorry, but that is not in proportion with the effort he had to do. Artists must work for their money, like everybody else; playing concerts... The music industry must expand it's actions, and not only record a few songs and sit back for the rest of the year! 5/ Make music cheaper, make CD's more 'customizable'. Here in Belgium I pay 15-20 euro for one full-CD, and mostly I like just 1 or 2 songs on it. Why can't I burn my own CD's, and pay only (a fair price for) the copyrights ? damn, this makes me angry. But I'll stop wining now :) I'm curious what anyone else thinks about this. Steven PS. Isn't this a little off topic ? :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] The Mysterious Vanishing Title Bar
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 00:11, Glenn wrote: Can anybody tell me whether there's an easy way to recover the title bars for my apps in MDK 9.1? I got into a fix where I had a couple of Konsole sessions that wouldn't kill, and the process of attempting to kill them made the title bar non-existent on every application I opened thereafter (and even after a clean restart of the machine), and apps are non-movable. Menu selections are still available. Additionally, of course the minimize/maximize/and close icons are gone. Any help for a newbie (even after four months)?? Glenn Checkout your window-manager ? If it is running, try switching to another one, then back to the one you used before. Try choosing another theme ? Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] random playlist generator
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 22:30, Todd Slater wrote: I'm looking for a program/script that will generate a random playlist of all my oggs. Know of such a thing? Todd Can't you do this with xmms ? Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] random playlist generator
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 23:55, Todd Slater wrote: I want it to generate a random playlist from all of my music (where I can specify a directory and have it recurse). Open the playlist in xmms, hold mousebutton down on the button '+file', you get a popup menu. choose +dir, choose your directory, and it will recursively add all musicfiles in that directory (at least, if xmms supports ogg, but I think it does...) Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Help with gnome default browser
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 02:15, Terence J. Golightly wrote: if this has been discussed please excuse and point me ... Indeed, this is discussed before :-) I have changed my default browser from Mozilla to Opera from the Gnome configuration app. and edited Gconf directly no go. What can be done from here? put this lines in the file ~/.gnome/Gnome: http-show=opera %s https-show=opera %s At least if 'opera' is the command which starts the browser :-) Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in
I don't think that's flash, but a Java Applet. (www.sun.com) Didn't get that working in galeon yet... but didn't try much :-) Steven On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 12:52, Chris Blake wrote: Greetings, With MDK 9 I installed a flash-player plug-in for Galeon, however, since moving to 9.1 (clean install) I cannot find the appropriate plug-in. I tried installing the plug-in I downloaded for when I was using MDK 9, but it don`t do anything. I`m trying to access http://www.epson.co.uk/selector2/selector.htm and there it has a link to download the flash plug-in, but Flash site responds by saying I don`t have a compatible browser... Any ideas ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 15:00, RichardA wrote: Actually, that's not a java applet, it is flash - click on the jigsaw icon and see what it says it can't find the plugin for. embed src=selector.dcr pluginspage=http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/; width=650 height=650 sw1= Shockwave... Couldn't be flash, because flash in galeon is working for me. Anyway, I had to check it out before replying. Sorry for the wrong information. Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apache rewrite regex
. means every character * means zero, one or more instances of the previous character. ^ means beginning of the line (or negation in some situations) $ means end of line The part of the regexp between the brackets will be returned as $1 So the first regexp ^(.*\/perl\/.*)$ says: - If a line starts (^) with zero, one or more instances of any character - followed by /perl/ (the slashes are backslashed because it are special characters) - followed by zero, one or more instances of any character result == the whole line without any end-of-line characters, if it contains /perl/, Nothing if it doesn't contain /perl/ So a wild guess for the string you want to write: ^\/perl\/dl.pl(\/.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:8200/perl/dl.pl$1 But I guess the regexp you wrote first will work to ! Steven On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 09:05, Frankie wrote: Hi guys I am hoping that on this list is a regex/apache guru... Currently, I have mdk9.0 running mod_perl/apache via virtual named hosts.. works great. I can run mod_perl scripts in either of the following methods: http://mydomain.com/perl/script.pl or http://mydomain.com:8200/perl/script.pl so the basic proxying works.. However only the latter URL works when passed params.. like so: http://mydomain.com:8200/perl/script.pl?id=somethingfunction=stuff (that one works) This one doesn't: http://mydomain.com/perl/script.pl?id=somethingfunction=stuff when I try that I always get the message that script.pl can't be found. Since its an internal proxy, I can't see what the regex has grabbed. This is the regex in question in the vhosts file: RewriteRule ^(.*\/perl\/.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:8200$1 [P] I tried adding this one too in an effort to be more specific.. but it didn't work either: RewriteRule /perl\/dl.pl/(.*) http://127.0.0.1:8200/perl/dl.pl$1 [P] What I don't understand is this: .* In my mind means '0' or more of 'anything' so why is it not catching params?? Can anyone point me in the right direction here? regards Franki __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] apache rewrite regex
So a wild guess for the string you want to write: ^\/perl\/dl.pl(\/.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:8200/perl/dl.pl$1 But I guess the regexp you wrote first will work to ! Steven forgot some comments. - I don't think the regexp I wrote is 100% correct - Also try: RewriteRule ^.*(\/perl\/.*)$ http://127.0.0.1:8200$1 [P] (the .* outside of the brackets) Maybe that will work ? Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NTP Server
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 02:42, Cody Harris wrote: As a second comment, this is over my head and i'm going to drop it. How do you uninstall? That's not the way... You don't want to learn things ? Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Zombie computer
I noticed Flash loading my cpu constantly. As soon as I closed the page, cpuload was low again. Which process was using 97% of your CPU ? Steven On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 04:08, Aron Smith wrote: I was trying to get the flash player for mozilla and found the RPMs at http://sluglug.usc.edu Whil browsing the readme file I noticed that the box was slow , So I ran top kdeadmin was taking 97% of cpu time what happened? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] root password expired.
If someone has physical access to your computer, it's almost impossible to secure the machine for 100% Maybe encrypted partitions can do the trick (partially), but I 'm not familiar with it. Steven On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 15:00, Burrows, Scott wrote: What prevents anybody from doing this to gain access to the system? Scott -Original Message- From: Troy Davidson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 5:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] root password expired. Ze, Restart the computer and put it into single user mode. At either LILO or GRUB, type 'linux 1' at the prompt. Then, once the computer has started, go into a terminal and type in 'su'. You won't need to enter in a password. Type in 'userconf' and change the root password. Reboot the system and you should be all set. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting Ze Ji Li [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there, My root password expired. I can't su and login from the terminals. Is there anyway I can reset it? Thank you. Ze __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newer versions of the kernel for 9.1
Try kernel.org ? Or do you need specific kernels for mandrake ? (in that case, I don't know) Steven On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 05:46, Guy Rouillier wrote: Where can I find later versions of the kernel for 9.1? I'm experiencing the ldm_validate_partition_table problem. I've looked on both pbone and rpmfind and neither of them appears to have new versions. pbone actually did have one a couple months ago (which unfortunately did not solve the problem), but now I can't find one there. Thanks. BTW, I searched MandrakeClub and didn't find anything there either. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] More about Bind...
Can you give us more information about what you've done, what is in your config-files etc ? Some thing that goes through my mind now: - before restarting bind, open another terminal and do tail -f /var/log/messages It gives valueable information about possible errors. - Put your loopback in /etc/resolve.conf - use dig for DNS lookups Steven On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 14:56, Yves Arsenault wrote: Hello, I have recently followed a tutorial in the webmin docs on configuring the Bind DNS server, so I`ve added a domain and followed the tutorial as precisely as possible When I run host domain.com serverip It still doesn`t find the domain name. I keep getting: connection timed out; no servers could be reached Is Bind dependant on other programs that I might not have running? Thanks Yves Arsenault Carrefour Infotech 5,promenade Acadian Charlottetown, IPE C1C 1M2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (902)368-1895 ext.242 ICQ #117650823 __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] More about Bind...
Did you try tail -f /var/log/messageswhile restarting bind ? I would like to know if it gives any error-messages... I think there is a ; missing after the last bracket of your time-to-live settings. I never understood why it had to be there, but it had... Maybe try your config-file this way? : There could be errors in it, but maybe it puts you on the right track ? $TTL 38400 @ IN SOA ns1.domain.com. yves.carrefour.peicaps.org. ( 1055162570 10800 3600 604800 38400 ); IN NS ns1.domain.com. IN MX 10 mail.domain.com. this should be a hostname in the domain IN A 24.222.21.54 this should be a hostname in the domain IN A 24.222.21.54 #The previous line is not possible, because you use 2 times the same #IP address. Use a CNAME instead of a A-record. mailIN CNAME this should be a hostname already defined I don't know what you are trying to do with the ilebranchee-thing. You need to put the hosts from your domain in this file, without the domain-name, without a point after them. Steven On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 16:27, Yves Arsenault wrote: In my domain.com.hosts file, I have the following contents: domain.com. IN SOA ns1.domain.com. yves.carrefour.peicaps.org. ( 1055162570 10800 3600 604800 38400 ) domain.com. IN NS ns1.domain.com. domain.com. IN A 24.222.21.54 www.ilebranchee.ca. IN A 24.222.21.54 mail.domain.com.IN CNAME domain.com. domain.com. IN MX 10 mail.domain.com Are there any other files that you would like to see? Yves Arsenault Carrefour Infotech 5, Acadian Dr. Charlottetown, PEI C1C 1M2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (902)368-1895 ext.242 ICQ #117650823 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steven Broos Sent: June 9, 2003 11:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] More about Bind... Can you give us more information about what you've done, what is in your config-files etc ? Some thing that goes through my mind now: - before restarting bind, open another terminal and do tail -f /var/log/messages It gives valueable information about possible errors. - Put your loopback in /etc/resolve.conf - use dig for DNS lookups Steven On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 14:56, Yves Arsenault wrote: Hello, I have recently followed a tutorial in the webmin docs on configuring the Bind DNS server, so I`ve added a domain and followed the tutorial as precisely as possible When I run host domain.com serverip It still doesn`t find the domain name. I keep getting: connection timed out; no servers could be reached Is Bind dependant on other programs that I might not have running? Thanks Yves Arsenault Carrefour Infotech 5,promenade Acadian Charlottetown, IPE C1C 1M2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (902)368-1895 ext.242 ICQ #117650823 __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] More about Bind...
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 16:59, Yves Arsenault wrote: Jun 9 12:01:18 man1 named[1101]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' Jun 9 12:01:18 man1 named[1101]: /etc/named.conf:12: expected port number or '*' near 'allow' Jun 9 12:01:18 man1 named[1101]: reloading configuration failed: unexpected token Every line contains the process tat triggered the log-message. Here are the three last lines from named (the bind server) Aparently, there is a fault in your configfile, at line 12. - /etc/named.conf:12: expected port number or '*' near 'allow' Now you can track that fault, and correct it. When that's done, restart named, again take a look at /var/log/messages, and keep on going until it works :-) I hope this helps. Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Optimizing my system
Install the nvidia drivers. You can find them @ www.nvidia.com there should be info about how to install... If you start X, you first get a NVIDIA splash-screen. If you don't see that, the correct drivers are not installed. Steven On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 18:36, Patrick Coffey wrote: My question is pretty simple, I downloaded Quake III:Arena demo the other day to compare how it played in linux and in windows. To my surprise the intro and menus were very slow and choppy and the game pretty much didn't play it was so slow. So my question is, how do I check to see if I have the right video drivers loaded, and how else could I optimize my system. I'm running an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1.6Ghz with 256 MB DDR and a GeForce 4 ti 4200 with 128mb. _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dear Steve: Time for Microsoft Linux?
I stopped reading half away, when i read MS Linux for the third time. I don't like that... Not at all ! What MS needs to do, is making its own applications open source, so they can be enhanced (and ported). What I don't like, is MS building on a linux platform. I think this will give a whole new, negative dimension on so called open source. Let MS focus on regular home-PC-users and basic desktop-systems, and let linux for the people who want more... There is no way MS (the cpy) can work together with Linux, because the overall goals of both 'projects' are too different. I'm not against MS, but I'm pro linux! Er... sometimes I am against MS :-) Steven On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 17:23, Alan Dunford wrote: A friend sent this to me - thought it might be of some interest!!! -- This story was printed fromZDNN ,This message was forwarded to you from ZDNet (http://www.zdnet.com) Dear Steve: Time for Microsoft Linux? By David Coursey, AnchorDesk June 8, 2003 9:00 PM PT Dear Steve Ballmer: Concerning Linux and your memo/exhortation of June 4, I'm pleased to see you've finally recognized--publicly, at least--the threat posed to Microsoft by Linux. Some in the Linux community must imagine you with a sort of deer in the headlights look, not quite sure of your fate but certain it can't be good. They could see your memo as a legitimization of Linux, an admission by Goliath that David has a point after all. The Linux hardcore must be hooting and hollering and marking June 4 as a future national day of liberation from the evil empire. I THINK they have it backwards. I think Linux proponents are the ones who should be afraid. Why? Because Microsoft has been in this situation before and, once the battleship was turned, fought and won. Your company also ended up being declared a monopoly, making a deal with the feds, and spending large millions on legal fees. But what's that to Microsoft's multibillion-dollar war chest? You remember the fall of 1995? Back then, people thought Microsoft was hopelessly late in acknowledging the existence of something called the Internet. Competitors were popping up, the industry was abuzz, and Microsoft was nowhere to be found. As I remember, Microsoft had some important projects to finish the previous summer, in particular a little something called Windows 95. But by December, once that had shipped and people had a chance to rest and regroup, Bill invited the media up to Microsoft for a talk about the Internet. That turned out to be one of the most fateful days in personal computing history. Bill told several hundred reporters that Microsoft wouldn't be building Internet products. Instead, it would be putting the Internet into all Microsoft products. Every future Microsoft product would have Internet capabilities built-in. NOW, I'M NOT SURE your June 4 memo is the same war cry I heard nearly eight years ago. But if I were Linux and faced with the prospect of Microsoft throwing everything it could at me, I'd find some way to get out of your path. Here's my suggestion for how Microsoft should deal with Linux: Don't beat 'em, join 'em. Do a release of MS Linux. Create Office for Linux. Improve Linux support in your development tools. Do such a good job of embracing and extending Linux that the world won't care when you essentially annex it for your own. A more cynical person than myself might add: Then you can kill it. I won't, because I believe Linux deserves to live. I think this is the only way Microsoft can both give its customers what they want and manage the threat Linux poses on something approaching your own terms. The first question people will immediately ask is: How can Microsoft participate in an open operating system? Two ways: First, by making it as robust an OS as possible. Second, by creating a collection of services and applications that run atop Linux that only Microsoft controls. The goal here is to shift the competition away from commodity operating systems running on commodity computers. Instead, you should compete on services that sit atop the OS, tools to build applications for it, and integration between the OS and other servers and desktops in the Microsoft world. The second inevitable question: What about Linux on the desktop? While Apple has proven with OS X that a really great desktop can be built atop Unix, I'm not sure how far Microsoft wants to go down this road. There should probably be an Office for MS Linux, because some people will want to run Office on Linux desktops. But I'd probably stop there. BY ADOPTING Linux as its own, Microsoft can
RE: [newbie] More about Bind...
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 18:57, Yves Arsenault wrote: Thanks Steven You know what, the small error on that line was the only thing causing the error... Thanks a million! I'm glad I finally could help someone. Most of my answers are too dumb to remember :) Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache question
What exactly do you want to come up, when you type in what IP ? Maybe you can give an example or so ? Steven On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 20:27, Yves Arsenault wrote: Hello again, I'm pleased to report that my site now comes up, Bind works well, Apache works well. Now when I type in the IP address in my browser the website comes up by default... How do I set the IP to point to another page? Thanks again, Yves Arsenault Carrefour Infotech 5,promenade Acadian Charlottetown, IPE C1C 1M2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (902)368-1895 ext.242 ICQ #117650823 __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache security
http://www.apacheweek.com/features/codered Some stupid worm. Nothing to be concerned about, if you're running apache. At least if you don't need to administer the stations where the requests come from :-) Steven On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 17:45, JoeHill wrote: On 08 Jun 2003 00:13:48 +0200 Steven Broos [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Then you can disable PHP easily if you really want to, and let a script create a HTML-file which contains the uptime. ah, I'm not that concerned. it's just: ?php include uptime.txt; ? I see the usual attempts at running windows scripts, but one thing stumps me. I see this occasionally as well, from different addresses on the same subnet as me (64.x.x.x): 64.229.89.4 - - [07/Jun/2003:23:59:37 -0400] GET /default.ida?XX XXX XXX %u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u780 1%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53 ff%u0078%u%u00=a HTTP/1.0 404 393 - - it doesn't correspond with any visitors to the server. I'm Googling now, but anyone know what this is? -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 11:40:05 up 5 days, 9:43, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Reasons for Linux
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 20:50, rikona wrote: Hello Steven, Saturday, June 7, 2003, 3:21:48 PM, you wrote: SB Windows is ordinar and almost everybody uses it, Linux is a SB challenge ;-) It is getting easier, and I think that is good. Best would be a very easy GUI - BUT, with the same underlying basis we have now. Best of both worlds, something for everybody, (well - almost - there will always be the 'elite' who will resent non-elites being able to run linux). Maybe the key to having linux be REALLY popular? True, an OS must work straight from the box to the desktop. But with the challenge I meant: there are so many possibilities. No-one has to explore them, but everybody can. It's been said better in a later post: Features, customisation and multifunctionality. English is not my native language, so I can't always express what I'm thinking and feeling :-) Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Ownership thing
You can use the Sticky Bit Read this article: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/admin-primer/ch-acctsgrps.html Steven --Extract-- setuid used only for applications, this permission indicates that the application runs as the owner of the file and not as the user executing the application. It is indicated by the character s in place of the x in the owner category. If the owner of the file does not have execution permissions, the S is capitalized. --set it with: chmod 4xxx dir/file-- setgid used primarily for applications, this permission indicates that the application runs as the group owning the file and not as the group executing the application. If applied to a directory, all files a user creates within the directory are owned by the group who owns the directory, rather than by the user's private group (see the chapter titled Users and Groups in Official Red Hat Linux Reference Guide for more about user private groups). It is indicated by the character s in place of the x in the group category. If the group owner of the file or directory does not have execution permissions, the S is capitalized. --set it with: chmod 2xxx dir/file-- sticky bit used primarily on directories, this bit dictates that a file created in the directory can be removed only by the user who created the file. it is indicated by the character t in place of the x in the everyone category. in Red Hat Linux the sticky bit is set by default on the /tmp/ directory for exactly this reason. --set it with: chmod 1xxx dir/file-- - On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 19:12, Kristjan wrote: Hi It must be a simple thing but still How can I make so that users can change the ownership of files that are resided in their own home directory and that are not owned by them Currently an user who issues 'chown' command to the file that is not owned by him only gets that operation is not permitted Kristjan __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Apache security
I think it's a little bit paranoia to say you may not run PHP. I find it weird CGI is OK, but PHP isn't... Both are dangerous for your system when they are not administered well. Apache has one parent-instance owned by root. The child-rpocesses are run from the account you specified. I wouldn't worry about that. A lot of security related issues depend on how you use your machine. Is it a webserver, or a personal desktop PC ? In the second case, do you have a permanent internet connection ? Is there a router or firewall in between ? ... Maybe you want to read some information about IPtables... ? Steven On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 19:31, JoeHill wrote: I read the Seven Deadly Sins of Linux security, and one item concerns me: On Toxen's don'ts list: Don't use PHP, even though it's convenient. Don't run DNS, auth (ident) or Apache as root. But, do use suEXEC, a tool first introduced in Apache 1.2, that increases security by allowing users to develop and run private CGI or SSI programs. I will look into suEXEC, but I see that on my server, httpd2 is run by apache, except for *one* httpd2 process that is run as root. Is that necessary, and if not, can I kill it? Also, why would PHP be a security risk? because it is executed on the server and not on the client's browser...? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Suspicious email supposedly from Newbie.
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 20:39, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Friday 06 June 2003 17:03, Anne Wilson wrote: Ooops - is he saying that he has been reading for two years? Did he get the virus and think it came from us? Anne Probably, he thinks Linux has no documentation... so it mst be true! and besides, who knows how many viruses does Lunix have?! Just this morning, I was thinking: Argh, my stupid linux box! Until I realized (as always) I made the mistake, I messed up the file. Safemode or rescue disk, edit/restore file, reboot, and all worked well again. The first thing that went through my mind was this post, although I don't know exactly what it's all about... But I do know the weakest point in my linux box: myself. So maybe he needs something to blame for his own errors ? (actually, I do to, but I blame that one software company :-)) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux
That's a very personal matter... But I'll give you my quick top-5: (didn't think of it for a long time, so please don't take it too serious) First of all, M$ is about money, Linux is about quality and consumer/user-needs. Linux distro's and most of the applications are FREE! Windows is kinda standard, with a lot of different looks if you please, linux is about tweaking the system for your own desires. Windows is ordinar and almost everybody uses it, Linux is a challenge ;-) Portability of file-formats isn't a really big issue anymore. I managed to run M$Office, macromedia flash etc on my Linux-box, which I needed for school. While using Linux, it's very easy to learn how your computer works, while windows keeps those things hided (which is not a bad case for most users, but I find it rather annoying) On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 00:07, Cody Harris wrote: Can someone come up with a few good reasons to switch from XP to Linux? Someone wants to know the pros and cons and why he should switch. -Cody Harris ++ | Linux Rox My Sox! | | Check out HCHS!| | http://vectec.net | ++--+ | Proud to use Mandrake Linux 8.1 as a server. | | Not proud to use Windows as a primary server. | ++--+ | Registered Linux user #315598 | | Registered Linux Computer #200951 | | Wrote on a Windoze Computer :( | ++ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Reasons for Linux
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 00:18, walt wrote: 1) runs faster 2) takes up less hard drive space 3) takes less time to load on to your computer and you practically have everything you need without loading a lot of other programs on it 4) dont need to keep rebooting I knew I should have said other things :-) Really nice answer is this. And.. I want to correct my previous mail. (pressed 'send' too quickly as usual). I wrote: Portability of file-formats isn't a really big issue anymore. I managed to run M$Office, macromedia flash etc on my Linux-box, which I needed for school. and I meant: People are working hard on projects like OpenOffice to display word-documents and others correctly. Even if you need windows-applications like Flash, there are possibilities. again, Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 bootup, 'acpi' failed
Press 'q' or ctrl+c They both apply for a whole bunch of cases. Steven On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 03:16, The Other wrote: 06/06/03 When Mandrake 9.1 is booting up, the list of services and whatnot scrolls by with everything as OK, with the one exception of 'acpi' FAILED. It hasn't done this before. Is this a problem to be concerned about? And for the second question: I understand how to read a 'man' page by executing 'man *program/command*' What I've yet to figure out is HOW TO GET OUT OF 'MAN' !([EMAIL PROTECTED] [I'd be happy to 'man acpi' if I could get out of the man pages.] What is the special keystroke sequence to gracefully exit the 'man' system? Thanks All, The Other (much calmer now) __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
