Re: run scripts as other user

2003-02-28 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 12:12 AM 3/1/2003 -0500, [ramzez] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi friends... Which perms I have to give to my script if I wanna that other users run it but just how if I run it. I know that is something with suid but I can't do it This question is a bit hard to follo

run scripts as other user

2003-02-28 Thread [ramzez]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi friends... Which perms I have to give to my script if I wanna that other users run it but just how if I run it. I know that is something with suid but I can't do it thanks - -- Linux User Registered #232544 ICQ : 337889406 my GnuPG-

Re: Debian questions

2003-02-28 Thread Peter
I think when I upgraded from RH6.2 saytime would not work well anymore. What I did was change the bottom lines in saytime.sh as follows: cat $SAYFILES > saytemp # cat $SAYFILES > /dev/audio (original disabled) play -t ul -r 8000 saytemp and it worked ever since thru RH7.3. Regards -- Peter

animated gif creation

2003-02-28 Thread Peter Howell
I've just been full of problems this week. Now here is another one. I've captured a series of short avis which I'd like to import into an openoffice presentation. Unfortunately, openoffice will only accept animated gifs. My choices are now 1) Find a conversion package to let me create the

Re: pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-02-28 Thread Brian Jackson
I don't know if you can get ahold of a newer version of koffice, but I had the kind of stability problems with older versions. The newest version seems to be about as close to stable as the rest of my system. (I've learned not to expect perfection unless I want to help make it that way) --Brian

pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-02-28 Thread James Miller
Greetings, all. I have recently discovered the ability of certain Linux word processing apps to create pdf files. What I'm referring to here is the print to file feature, i.e. printing an OpenOffice or M$Word file to pdf. This is really useful for my work, and could save me plenty over the competi

Re: File names with spaces

2003-02-28 Thread Mike Castle
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >for file in `ls -1`; do > newfile=`echo "$file" | sed 's/ /_/'` > echo "File is named ${file}" > echo "The new file is named ${newfile}" > > mv "$file" "$newfile" >done > >IHMO in the main-loop it is better to choose "ls -1", so the

RE: Lycoris

2003-02-28 Thread James Miller
> Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote: > Can anyone tell me if the Lycoris installation program will let me > choose where to install ? I need to respect an existing Windows > installation. As I'm recalling, if you choose the "advanced" option, you get a choice of partitions on which to install. I seem t

Re: Lycoris

2003-02-28 Thread Andrew Langdon-Davies
James Miller wrote: On 28 Feb 2003, Amin wrote: Has anyone used Lycoris? What's the word on the vine about it? The website would have us believe that it's bringing about a ``revolution'' in desktop Linux. If it's as good as advertised, what's going on out there? I've used Lycoris. It's

Re: 2.5.59: Kernel: No module found in object

2003-02-28 Thread pa3gcu
On Friday 28 February 2003 07:44, Eng Se-Hsieng wrote: > Dear all, > > I have to get the Nokia D211 working in the 2.5.59 kernel. I tweaked the > driver files (which are meant for 2.4.x kernels) and it compiles and > installs fine but when I insert the PCMCIA device, I get: I saw at least 4 decent

Re: distribution choice

2003-02-28 Thread Ray Olszewski
I'll venture to disagree with one detail of Frank's review. At 08:30 AM 2/28/2003 -0500, Frank Roberts wrote: [...] It is recommended that one acquire the commercial box sets for the commercial distributions or a commercial generated CD set for Debian. For Debian try a company like Cheap Bites. Wh

Re: Debian questions

2003-02-28 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 07:10 AM 2/28/2003 -0500, neil t wrote: Hello Ray and group- I have been reading the posts about Distro's and saw your comments about Debian. I obtained a copy of 3.0 a several months ago. I installed it and had it setup and running but never had it fine tuned. Last month I decided to start ag

Re: Lycoris

2003-02-28 Thread James Miller
On 28 Feb 2003, Amin wrote: > Has anyone used Lycoris? What's the word on the vine about it? The > website would have us believe that it's bringing about a ``revolution'' > in desktop Linux. If it's as good as advertised, what's going on out there? > I've used Lycoris. It's one of those *real* n

Re: Lycoris

2003-02-28 Thread Arthur Othieno
Hello Amin, I've heard about Lycoris but not used it. This URL from DistroWatch has a couple of links to (user?) reviews, so hopefully that should provide some more insight: http://www.distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=Lycoris HTH, Arthur Amin wrote: Hi, Has anyone used Lycoris? What'

Re: distribution choice

2003-02-28 Thread Frank Roberts
Hi All Hope I am not sticking my keyboard in my mouth but here are a few thoughts on the latest version of the three major commercial distribution and Debian. Redhat - seems to be focused toward servers and uniform workstations for corporate America. Single choice of desktop - The Bluecurve. Re

Debian questions

2003-02-28 Thread neil t
Hello Ray and group- I have been reading the posts about Distro's and saw your comments about Debian. I obtained a copy of 3.0 a several months ago. I installed it and had it setup and running but never had it fine tuned. Last month I decided to start again. I have been having a pretty good ti

Lycoris

2003-02-28 Thread Amin
Hi, Has anyone used Lycoris? What's the word on the vine about it? The website would have us believe that it's bringing about a ``revolution'' in desktop Linux. If it's as good as advertised, what's going on out there? Yawar Amin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l

Re: Search tool

2003-02-28 Thread Robin Doer
> I am trying to write a program in c to be able to search a file > for any pattern which will be given by the user at > runtime.Basically a search tool. > Could someone suggest a good way of doing this.I've heard of lex > and yacc and also awk.Which one is better or is there any other > option. I