Re: default file permissions

2004-05-11 Thread Bart Dorsey
On Monday 10 May 2004 11:17 am, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Would some explain further the 4 number system? More exactly, the last three numbers are clear, they are explained everywhere, but the first one, refering to special, is not explained anywhere that I know. I will be happy to read about

Re: default file permissions

2004-05-11 Thread Bart Dorsey
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 9:11 am, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: BTW, the sticky bits are overlaid on top of these to create the extra digit... 4 2 1 rwx rwx rwx can you be more explicit? Sure, I'll try the first rwx is the 4's place, the second rwx is the 2's place, and the

Re: default file permissions

2004-05-09 Thread Bart Dorsey
The real proper way to do this is to create your family-group (in fact the users group would suffice for this, just add both users to is (why is this not the default in debian?) them create /home/shared-stuff and set it 775 chmod 775 /home/shared-stuff then set the group sticky bit on the

Re: Fish doesn't work in Cheney debs

2004-02-11 Thread Bart Dorsey
You might try using sftp:// Most ssh servers support sftp nowdays. On Wednesday 11 February 2004 11:53 am, Antiphon wrote: Has anyone else had problems using the fish:// protocol in Konqueror with Chris's debs? pgpfrDFjdeaZU.pgp Description: signature

Re: Why Are Some Fonts So Bad ?

2004-01-04 Thread Bart Dorsey
On Saturday 03 January 2004 9:32 pm, Nick Boyce wrote: I'm running KDE 3.1.4 with XFree86 4.1.0-16 on Woody, with anti-aliasing switched on, and although the desktop mostly looks pretty slick, there are still some *really* bad font renditions in some parts of some windows. The lines do cause

Re: Using mutt + kmail

2003-06-29 Thread Bart Dorsey
My solution to this was to setup and run courier-imap on my local machine... both mutt and kmail can connect to imap servers... this also gives me a nice way to read my email from somewhere else (use courier-imap-ssl for security) I recommend Maildir with imap though, as courier-imap+Maildir is