So with this example you have to kick this script off under root. Correct?
The problem is I would prefer not to have the hastle of going under root.
J. Grant wrote:
as r00t
su other-user
chmod 700 script.sh
chmod +s script.sh
exit
JG
ps be careful this user is aware that someone
tell the user to chmod +s the file then
JG
Kevin Fonner wrote:
So with this example you have to kick this script off under root. Correct?
The problem is I would prefer not to have the hastle of going under root.
J. Grant wrote:
as r00t
su other-user
chmod 700 script.sh
chmod +s
On Sun, 26 May 2002, Kevin Fonner wrote:
I have a bash script that get's called from another bash script. How
can I get the second bash script to run as a different user?
You'll have to use a utility such as sudo or else create a c wrapper
script that you can set suid. Doing a chmod +s on
What about:
su - user -c other_script
However, unless the first script is running as root, this will stop to
ask you for a password.
Nick.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 26 May 2002, Kevin Fonner wrote:
I have a bash script that get's called from another bash script. How
can I get
Le Dimanche 26 Mai 2002 01:20, vous avez écrit :
Double-check the boot to make sure mem=nopentium is in each and every
linux boot append line. (Yeah, a slight difference in mem paging
between K7s and Pentiums of all generations)
I tried that, for my 8.2 since-the-installation instability.
Le Dimanche 26 Mai 2002 00:14, vous avez écrit :
Hi guys,
I'm sadly experiencing a lot of freezes in my LM 8.1 box. I just hope I
Hi !
[I know my story is related to the 8.2 and 8.1, but it will perhaps help
you...]
I experienced EXACTLY the same thing, with my Mdk 8.2 just installed. I
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 13:25, Vincent Danen wrote:
On Sat May 25, 2002 at 04:43:06PM +1000, Mark Williamson wrote:
I am making up a Exim mail server RPM for the Mandrake 8.2 Linux
http://www.exim.org, the problem that I have is to work out the uid and
gid that I am about to use for the
Hey all,
well let me put few cents on top. I do have dual Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU
1.70GHz stepping 02 DELL machine with 1G of memory, and I do experience
the same random freezings like the AMD users using Mandrake 8.1 kernel:
Linux version 2.4.8-26mdkenterprise. Thought it's a X system, so I
Le Lundi 27 Mai 2002 12:40, vous avez écrit :
Hey all,
well let me put few cents on top. I do have dual Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU
1.70GHz stepping 02 DELL machine with 1G of memory, and I do experience
the same random freezings like the AMD users using Mandrake 8.1 kernel:
Linux version
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey all,
well let me put few cents on top. I do have dual Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU
1.70GHz stepping 02 DELL machine with 1G of memory, and I do experience
the same random freezings like the AMD users using Mandrake 8.1 kernel:
Linux version 2.4.8-26mdkenterprise.
Le Lundi 27 Mai 2002 13:29, vous avez écrit :
but their installation programs complain about the partitioning table
Mandrake created, and cannot solve that without too much tinkering. A
So did I noticed. It was simply impossible for Partition Magic to analyze the
HDD anymore... That's why I
Hello!
I have quite a large collection of CDs. And I really need a database
for their contents (lots of backups and archives too).
In my Windoze days I used to use an app called DiskBase. Now, as my
system is windoze-free I have nothing similar.
I found GTKtalog, which seems great. But it
Hi List,
I've got something weird going on with RPM on my on Mandrake box. When
ever I attempt to --test install a package or just plain old -ivh a
package(s) I'm accustomed to seeing it do something. at the very least
come back with an error telling me there are dependency issues.
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Rodolfo [ISO-8859-1] Canet-Castelló wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey all,
well let me put few cents on top. I do have dual Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU
1.70GHz stepping 02 DELL machine with 1G of memory, and I do experience
the same random freezings like the AMD
Hello!
I really dislike Nautilus. No disrespect for the guys who build it.
But I don't like it. And even if I'd like it, it is too fat and slow
for my system (a K6-2@300Mhz).
Now I want to take it off my system. This is the result of an
interesting chain of events. So. I run MDK8.2 but my
you all aware that 8.2 powerpack comes with an installable 2.2.x kernel? you
don't have to download if you want to try a 2.2.x kernal
On Monday 27 May 2002 05:26 am, you wrote:
Le Dimanche 26 Mai 2002 01:20, vous avez écrit :
Double-check the boot to make sure mem=nopentium is in each and
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Nick Thompson wrote:
What about:
su - user -c other_script
However, unless the first script is running as root, this will stop to
ask you for a password.
Yes -- unless the account is passwordless. You can probably use expect
to get around a passworded account,
Well, I'm currently trying the suggestion Civileme gave (to add append=
mem=nopentium to the lilo entries). The only reference I found to that
option was in the BootPromptH2:
*
The `mem=' Argument
This argument has two purposes: The original purpose was to specify the
amount of installed
Hey Gang,
The first time I booted up my iBook with Mandrake 8.2 on it, I got a
loud (distorted) opening theme. I opened up the sound server
(Config-KDE-sound server). I didn't see any volume there, but I did
see a place to tweak the buffer. I increased it, and had to restart the
sound server.
Raider wrote:
Finally, in case nothing works, do you know some really fast database
(I'd preffer text only, not some full blown SQL server as I'll need it
only to store text information) ? Something that has a lib for C, or
some perl or python connectivity so I can develop my own app...
You might try Gaby. It's a lighter weight Dbase like the old DBaseIV of
days gone by. And one of the samples it comes with is a Dbase and gui
for editing/cataloging your CD's It also has a Gui for creating these
Data Bases much like DBaseIV. You can grab it here.
On Mon, 27 May 2002 13:54:37 -0300
Jeferson Lopes Zacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I'm currently trying the suggestion Civileme gave (to add
append= mem=nopentium to the lilo entries). The only reference I
found to that option was in the BootPromptH2:
*
The `mem=' Argument
This
In a make file that I have, I have the line...
include ..\..\examples\common.make
I then get the error makefile:18: ..\..\examples\common.make: No such
file or directory
Does linux not like this syntax (..\..\)for moving backwards through
directories?
Want to buy your Pack or Services
8.1 was terrible for me and would hang all the time, i think my longest uptime
was a little under a day !! 8.2 rocks though, much much more stable, at least
for me, much much quicker too!!
Hi Mark,
That's surprising to me. 8.2 has been nothing but a pain in my arse for the past
several
Here goes a quick summary of my system :
Linux Mandrake 8.1, using ext3, on a (somewhat problematic I know)
A7V133 with a Duron 800 (not overclocked).
2 sticks of Micron PC133 (256+128)
TNT2M64 AGP :^(, XFree 4.0.3, latest Nvidia binary drivers
kernels 2.4.8-26mdk, 2.4.8 (recompiled),
Kevin Fonner wrote:
Does linux not like this syntax (..\..\)for moving backwards through
directories?
No, those are back-slashes. Linux uses forward-slashes '/'
ie : ../../../ will work to bring you up 3 levels ..
-
Kevin O'Connor
People will be free to devote themselves to activities
On Mon, 27 May 2002 11:23:10 +0200
Nicolas ROBAUX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Le Dimanche 26 Mai 2002 00:14, vous avez écrit :
Hi guys,
I'm sadly experiencing a lot of freezes in my LM 8.1 box. I just
hope I
Hi !
[I know my story is related to the 8.2 and 8.1, but it will perhaps
On Mon, 27 May 2002 14:18:11 -0400
Kevin Fonner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a make file that I have, I have the line...
include ..\..\examples\common.make
I then get the error makefile:18: ..\..\examples\common.make: No such
file or directory
Does linux not like this syntax
Mark try this (hopefully you can because if you can't... you can't
install it from rpm, but you could build from source.) strace rpm
--rebuilddb This will trace the program stack and in about oh the
last 5 lines or so you should see where it is hanging.
If not a second try might be to
oops!
It's funny how the simplest things stump you at times!
KevinO wrote:
Kevin Fonner wrote:
Does linux not like this syntax (..\..\)for moving backwards through
directories?
No, those are back-slashes. Linux uses forward-slashes '/'
ie : ../../../ will work to bring you up 3
et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on the other hand, it might be nice to know what happens when you are froze
what actions do you take to shut down? and what is the results of
ctrl+alt+f2? or ctrl+alt+Backspace? might also be related to the IRQ, and
If his experience is like mine (which, based
snip I haven't tested the memories yet, but the fact that
window$ does not freeze (there were some DLL errors as usual of course,
but no freezes.) makes it unlikely to be a pure hardware problem, IMHO.
end snipped section
wrong thinking (IMHO) windows only uses ram it needs and will have lots
I wonder how many of you have PCtel modems?
I have had ...no..never mind... I ain't gonna rant about how these damn
modems cause intermittant system hangs even when the modem shoiuld just be
sitting there and how much headaches I have had over the years with PCtel
modems (oh,, I am sure
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What does this error mean ?
INIT: ld 'x' respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
Thank you.
- --
Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pupeno.com.ar
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Hi:
I'm trying to connect to a LM8.0 server using ssh and running a
konsole on my terminal. The command I use is:
ssh 10.x.x.x
Then,
export DISPLAY=my.ip.add.ress:0
If I enter:
konsole
I get:
Xlib: Connection to my.ip.add.ress:0.0 refused by
James wrote:
Mark try this (hopefully you can because if you can't... you can't
install it from rpm, but you could build from source.) strace rpm
--rebuilddb This will trace the program stack and in about oh the
last 5 lines or so you should see where it is hanging.
If not a second
Nicolas ROBAUX wrote:
P.S. : a lot of users complain about freezes, in MandrakeForum, and they
accuse X or their KDM/GDM, or their graphic card, as they start X
automatically at boot, thinking that Linux is only a graphical systems... I'm
pretty sure all their troubles come from this
Well, I'm currently trying the suggestion Civileme gave (to add append=
mem=nopentium to the lilo entries). The only reference I found to that
option was in the BootPromptH2:
I'll be interested in hearing / seeing what you come up with on this. If this does
work, I'd be curious to find
Le Lundi 27 Mai 2002 21:46, vous avez écrit :
Nicolas ROBAUX wrote:
P.S. : a lot of users complain about freezes, in MandrakeForum, and they
accuse X or their KDM/GDM, or their graphic card, as they start X
automatically at boot, thinking that Linux is only a graphical systems...
I'm
Hello all,
I'm in a bit of a spot here...I've set up my 2 networks, put up a fine
firewall using 'smoothwall', everything's working just great...SO! I'm
getting bored.
Thus I decided to start on making/creating my very own private
network/internet server i.e. a p2p connection
Have you considered upgrading mozilla / nautilus / galeon, keep nautilus
there and not run it? Won't break then. But you may need to upgrade
other RPMs, namely Evolution and dependencies.
Damon
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
On May 27, 2002 09:19 am, Raider wrote:
Hello!
I have quite a large collection of CDs. And I really need a database
for their contents (lots of backups and archives too).
I haven't tried it, but I saw a CD database app on offer at apps.kde.com,
sorry I don't recall the name but you can
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 11:00, Raider wrote:
Hello!
I really dislike Nautilus. No disrespect for the guys who build it.
But I don't like it. And even if I'd like it, it is too fat and slow
for my system (a K6-2@300Mhz).
Now I want to take it off my system. This is the result of an
On Monday 27 May 2002 11:54 am, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote:
Tom Brinkman wrote:
If you still have freezes the next thing I'd try is renaming
XF86Config-4 to somethin like XF86Config-4-nvidia, and enable the
original XF86Config-4 to use the nv driver. You don't need to
uninstall the
James wrote:
From the looks of these error messages Civilme was (as usual) on the
money. They are paging errors. Some people just seem to have all the
answers. *grin* Should this be used with K-6 as well?
James
Well I'm not complaining about *that* ! hehe... but he is not a total
George De Bruin wrote:
et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on the other hand, it might be nice to know what happens when you are
froze
what actions do you take to shut down? and what is the results of
ctrl+alt+f2? or ctrl+alt+Backspace? might also be related to the IRQ,
and
If his
et wrote:
I wonder how many of you have PCtel modems?
I have had ...no..never mind... I ain't gonna rant about how these damn
modems cause intermittant system hangs even when the modem shoiuld
just be
sitting there and how much headaches I have had over the years
with PCtel
et wrote:
snip I haven't tested the memories yet, but the fact that
window$ does not freeze (there were some DLL errors as usual of course,
but no freezes.) makes it unlikely to be a pure hardware problem, IMHO.
end snipped section
wrong thinking (IMHO) windows only uses ram it
On Monday 27 May 2002 08:29 pm, you wrote:
et wrote:
snip I haven't tested the memories yet, but the fact that
window$ does not freeze (there were some DLL errors as usual of course,
but no freezes.) makes it unlikely to be a pure hardware problem, IMHO.
end snipped section
Thanks for the reply. I'm still not getting anywhere. I'm trying to forward
port 23 on my gateway to port 22 on my desktop. I'm trying to do this
internally first. Once I get this working, I'll switch so it forwards
external connections.
When I run this I get multiple s flags not allowed.
James wrote:
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but ..\..\ is windows and ../../ is
Unix.
James
It is exceedingly difficult to correct you when you are right. It would
appear that the original poster for this thread is a windows' user
making the switch to Linux. Hooray for him!
drjung
Alfredo Cole wrote:
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Hi:
I'm trying to connect to a LM8.0 server using ssh and running a
konsole on my terminal. The command I use is:
ssh 10.x.x.x
Then,
export DISPLAY=my.ip.add.ress:0
If I enter:
konsole
I get:
Xlib:
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 05:27, Alfredo Cole wrote:
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Hi:
I'm trying to connect to a LM8.0 server using ssh and running a
konsole on my terminal. The command I use is:
ssh 10.x.x.x
Then,
export DISPLAY=my.ip.add.ress:0
If I enter:
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 05:34, Mark D. Weaver wrote:
And to think when I recover from all this self-inflicted pain I've got
to figure out why my buddy Roger's router is being stoopid!
Where'd I put that damned 8 pound hammer. I need a good smackin around
to take the edge off! ;)
Mark
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 11:09, J. Craig Woods wrote:
Alfredo Cole wrote:
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Hi:
I'm trying to connect to a LM8.0 server using ssh and running a
konsole on my terminal. The command I use is:
ssh 10.x.x.x
Then,
export
Tom Brinkman wrote:
I build all my drivers from tar.gz, BTw there is a new driver set
(2960) but I will postpone the installation till I fix this.
Just 'cause they're 'tar.gz' doesn't mean you can compile the
nvidia binaries for your system. The source in the tarballs is just
a
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On Tuesday 28 May 2002 2:27 am, Brian Parish wrote:
While the doctor is in, do you have any idea why I can ssh -X to my
server and run any GUI app EXCEPT DrakConf?
Drackconfi rigged by msec to only work on local machine ? (guess)
Tom
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On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 11:00, Raider wrote:
Hello!
I really dislike Nautilus. No disrespect for the guys who build it.
But I don't like it. And even if I'd like it, it is too fat and slow
for my system (a K6-2@300Mhz).
Nautilus was developed by Eazel as a method of delivering Eazel
I've had great luck with PCTel modems in over 20 Linux and Windows installs. I've
never had problems with them in Linux, but I did have one Windows box that continually
locked up with it. Actually, the problem only surfaced after installing a
soundblaster live card. My solution was to
Brian Parish wrote:
While the doctor is in, do you have any idea why I can ssh -X to my
server and run any GUI app EXCEPT DrakConf?
thanks
Brian
LOL!
Hey Brian, I wish I did. I really try to stay away from most of the GUI
stuff that is used for network/system configuration. If I can
Yes -- unless the account is passwordless. You can probably use expect
to get around a passworded account, but since the pw would be in plain
text within the expect script this would be just as insecure.
I'm not really in favor of using sudo or wrapper scripts, however, since
they have
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 12:01, J. Craig Woods wrote:
Brian Parish wrote:
While the doctor is in, do you have any idea why I can ssh -X to my
server and run any GUI app EXCEPT DrakConf?
thanks
Brian
LOL!
Hey Brian, I wish I did. I really try to stay away from most of the GUI
Hi,
I'm trying to install Mandrake 8.2 on a Shuttle FV25
motherboard. I'm using a FTP install. All goes well
until the graphical install tries to detect IDE
devices. At that point my computer locks up. Because
it locks up I can't figure out what is causing the
lock up.
Here is my system:
Here is some additional info from the Shuttle site:
VIA VT8606T(PN133T) / VT82C686B Chipset
Socket 370, Supports Intel FCPGA Pentium III /Intel
FCPGA2 Pentium III-Tualatin / Celeron /
Celeron-Tualatin / VIA C3
Two 168-pin SDR DIMM PC100/PC133 SDR DIMM
Onboard Savage 2D/3D Graphics Engine
On Mon, 27 May 2002 15:11:13 -0400
et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip I haven't tested the memories yet, but the fact that
window$ does not freeze (there were some DLL errors as usual of
course, but no freezes.) makes it unlikely to be a pure hardware
problem, IMHO.end snipped section
Not
I've had one other cause of a lockup and I mean total no ssh nothing.
It' however was on a Mandrake 7.2 box an RH 7.1 and a Mandrake 8.1 ...
what did they have in common. For me. Netscape 6.2 Seems it has a
runaway jvm. One box pre-lockup had over 35 jvms started even though
the only thing
On Mon, 27 May 2002 20:00:03 -0500
J. Craig Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James wrote:
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but ..\..\ is windows and ../../ is
Unix.
James
It is exceedingly difficult to correct you when you are right. It
would appear that the original poster
Since I lost the preceding e-mails I'm guessing since your are wanting
to forward ssh through your firewall to your desktop. Here's an article
that might help... might not. Title SSH Port Forwarding. Written for a
Usnix Conf in 2000.
!,
I just finish trying to install 8.2 on a Compaq 360DL G2 with no luck.
It may be the same problem as the Compaq 1200s mentioned in the errata,
so I'm going to try the suggested patch tommorow.However, before I
left today, I thought I'd try a cooker install from ftp, which
The last IT shop I was in had a sledge hammer on the wall (where it came
from who knows.) The sign under it said.
A Systems Administrators Last Resort.
As a hardware tech my greatest fear was that someone would use it.
James
On 28 May 2002 11:19:09 +1000
Brian Parish
Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 11:00, Raider wrote:
Hello!
I really dislike Nautilus. No disrespect for the guys who build it.
But I don't like it. And even if I'd like it, it is too fat and slow
for my system (a K6-2@300Mhz).
Now I want to take it off my system.
A little early morning humor (hey, the list had no traffic).
A little old lady called 911. When the operator answered she
yelled, Help! Send the police to my house right away! There's
a damned republican on my front porch and he's playing with
himself.
What? the operator exclaimed!
I
Thanks. That will work for now. I'd like to be able to get port forwarding
to work eventually. I might want to set up my desktop as a web server.
On Monday 27 May 2002 09:51 pm, James wrote:
Since I lost the preceding e-mails I'm guessing since your are wanting
to forward ssh through your
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