Re: (no subject)

2005-11-14 Thread Mike Hernandez
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:59:53AM -, IraqiGeek wrote: > Hi all, > > After finishing LFS, now I'm continuing with the BLFS book. I am having an > issue with the prompt no matter which user I log on with. The prompt I am > getting, when logged in as root for example, is: > > [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Another day, another rebuild of gnome+evolution

2005-11-14 Thread Mike Hernandez
If it helps you feel less alone, I lost my ability to add contacts once with Evolution 2. That was when I decided that for all the effort it took to build and install it, it just wasn't worth it. The solution to my problem ended up being mutt. ;) I wish I could be more helpful in terms of techni

Re: fluxbox-0.9.14

2005-10-21 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 10/21/05, Thomas Trepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found that there is no "bsetroot" program > installed in /usr/bin any longer but a "fbsetroot". Many of the styles seem > to refer still to bsetroot so I symlinked it to fbsetroot. I think those styles were probably adapted from blackbox, he

Re: xfree86 help

2005-10-12 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 10/12/05, Stephen Hyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, I have compiled my own lfs 6.1 based system but now when I come to setup > xfree86 or xorg I cannot get it to make. The following command fails on the > grep statement, get file not found > > > > > sed -i -e "[EMAIL PROTECTED] @/* & *

Re: No sound lessons

2005-08-24 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 8/24/05, randhir phagura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was nice to see so many fellow-users of the List felt concerned about > this subject. Shows how active this List is. > > This started with me. I owe an explanation. > Welcome to the community :) You're a newbie, get used to it. I mean

Re: A question about login shells

2005-08-22 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 8/22/05, Kevin Somervill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hernandez wrote: > > by default xterm doesnt start as a login shell. try xterm -ls > > I did that first, then found the Xdefaults entry. My concern is that > somewhere along the way I goofed. Or maybe th

Re: A question about login shells

2005-08-22 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 8/22/05, Kevin Somervill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any suggestions or explanations for this behavior? by default xterm doesnt start as a login shell. try xterm -ls Mike -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscri

Re: Suggestion to improve?

2005-06-08 Thread Mike Hernandez
> > If our answer to spam on the mailing lists is to tell people to setup a > > filter, how come the book doesn't include any information on setting up > > client-side spam filtering? > Actually the book does include instructions for thunderbird, which has it's own trainable junk mail filter. It

Re: zip-2.3.1 permission serror

2005-04-27 Thread Mike Hernandez
Declan most recently said: > Don't compile it, if you want my advice. We'll be suffering for weeks. > get a precompiled one. Those things are _m_e_s_s_y_. Follow the > research motto: > > If at first you don't succeed - give up! > Honestly, if you were talking about java or openoffice, or maybe

Re: Xorg Installed and Working--Thanks

2005-04-26 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 4/26/05, Dan McGhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just had to post this "thank you" to the {,B}LFS teams--a little bash > humor there. :) > K! Time to build the next one :) Mike -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Un

Re: gnome and x problems

2005-04-26 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 4/26/05, Donal Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi again. I am having difficulties with gnome 2.10/Xorg6.8.2 When I do > startx, I get a gnome-terminal from which I do the commands metacity, or > opera, or nautilus. Any of these (and more) (and as root) give the > error: Cannot find display

Re: Understanding 'setuid'

2005-04-26 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 4/26/05, Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The sticky bit is the fourth permission digit. So you have 4711 > instead of 711 for programs that retain the owner's(usually root) > permissions. > Actually if the sticky bit is set you would have 1711, and if the suid bit is set you get

Re: Browse a local network?

2005-03-31 Thread Mike Hernandez
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:17:07 +0100, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So I'd like some suggestions please, what application should > I be looking at to move files between two Linux From Scratch PC's? Sounds like you might want to look into NFS... or for simple file tranfers you could inst

Re: Mozilla-1.7.5: locale not supported by Xlib

2005-03-08 Thread Mike Hernandez
> did you run X as an unpiveleged user, with an Xterm open, changing to > root via su? Then your X server runs with a different uid than the > mozilla, and the server won't let you connect.So try to run X as root. > > I hope this helps > > thorsten happel > -- This happens to me only if i startx

Re: spam on list

2005-03-06 Thread Mike Hernandez
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 22:10:55 + (GMT), Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, TheOldFellow wrote: > > > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > > > What spammers ? Thanks to spamassassin, I haven't seen any spam on the > > > lfs lists for weeks. > > > > Then you must take your LFS as ema