Re: run scripts as other user

2003-03-01 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 12:56 AM 3/2/2003 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > You accomplish that by setting the suid bit, which you can do with the command > > chmod +s filename > > Try "man chmod" for the details. The program needs to be normally > executable by the user in question, for example. > Try

Re: pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-03-01 Thread Theo. Sean Schulze
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 07:17:42PM -0600, James Miller hunted and pecked out: [snip] > I have several pdf reading progs on my machine, so my concern is not so > much with being able to read pdfs. It's more with creating them, and, > specifically, creating files compatible with Adobe Reader. Most pe

Re: run scripts as other user

2003-03-01 Thread whitnl73
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote: > ce: bulk > X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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

Re: pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-03-01 Thread Brian Jackson
On Saturday 01 March 2003 07:17 pm, James Miller wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Brian Jackson wrote: > > 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) > > I guess I don't consider expecting an application not

RE: pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-03-01 Thread James Miller
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Brian Jackson wrote: > 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) > I guess I don't consider expecting an application not to kill the Xserver just in the course of normal use "perfectio

Re: Debian questions

2003-03-01 Thread Peter
locate saytime.sh /usr/local/saytime/sounds/saytime.sh That's where I made the changes. Regards -- Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html P

RH8.0: wm choice

2003-03-01 Thread Haines Brown
Until I went to RH8.0, I used to be able to switch window managers to compare their features, but now I no longer know how to do it. I want to try sawfish, but that's only offered as an alternative desktop environment to gnome, not as a window manager to run under gnome. Running xinit sawfish doesn

Re:

2003-03-01 Thread Chuck Gelm
Dear Sir or Madam: IMHO, It is inappropriate to post questions about development kernels to a 'newbie' list. HTH, Chuck Eng Se-Hsieng wrote: > > Dear all, > > Is iproute2 necessary for IPv6 to work properly on 2.5.59 kernel? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ne

Re: pdf file creation using Linux apps

2003-03-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, James Miller wrote: > > 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 c

Re: 2.5.59: Kernel: No module found in object

2003-03-01 Thread Jose Luis Alarcon
--- "Eng Se-Hsieng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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: > >cardmgr[1302]: socket 0: Nokia D2

Re: iptables & a dhcpd question

2003-03-01 Thread Chuck Gelm
> > /etc/(PATH TO rc.firewall)/rc.firewall ^ /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall Hmmm, it is plain to see that Richard gave you good advice. :-| locate rc. Yes, IIRC, Slackware is BSD'ish, rather than SYSV'ish. HTH, Chuck > > > > and when they say dhcpd stop, you have to ad

Re: Wierd filesystem behavior

2003-03-01 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 07:17 PM 3/1/2003 +0930, Adam Luchjenbroers wrote: Output of df -hL FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda12 23G 21G 271M 99% / /dev/hda7 61M 7.3M 51M 13% /auxboot /dev/hda112.0G 1.9G 22M 99% /home /dev/hda8 35

Wierd filesystem behavior

2003-03-01 Thread Adam Luchjenbroers
Output of df -hL FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda12 23G 21G 271M 99% / /dev/hda7 61M 7.3M 51M 13% /auxboot /dev/hda112.0G 1.9G 22M 99% /home /dev/hda8 358M 2.0K 339M 1% /oldboot /dev/hda104.0

Re: Debian questions

2003-03-01 Thread neil t
Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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: Hi Peter-- Where can I find the saytime.sh file? I would like to see what it says. Here is what I get when I execute 'sayt