Skype and more

2005-03-29 Thread Peter
Hi, Slackware 10.1 kernel 2.4.29 Sometime ago I reported that skype would not open and at the same time after I had reinstalled slackware 10, xine and totem did not open anymore. Richard Adams then suggested to reinstall slackware w/o the old /usr/local and /home mounted, instead mount them af

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2005-03-29 Thread Ankit Jain
hi i have forgotten my root pasword. i had installed redhat linux 9.0 kernel version 2.4 with grub loader. if somebody can tell me how to change the password without logging. thanks ankit __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new r

RE: Syscall() vs _syscallN()

2005-03-29 Thread Alex LIU
Sorry for my unclear words... I want to know the DIFFERENCE between SYSCALL() and _SYSCALLN()... _syscallN() ( _syscall0(),_syscall1(),_syscall6() ) is a macro defined in include/asm/unist.h while syscall() is a glibc function which I'm not sure. Thanks! Alex -Original Message- From:

Re: Elvis and crontab

2005-03-29 Thread J.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, chuck gelm wrote: > Ray Olszewski wrote: > > At 01:41 PM 3/29/2005 +0800, Peter wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> In slackware, crontab is using elvis as the editor instead of vim and > >> I can't > >> make heads or tails out of it. > >> > >> Does anybody know how to change this

Re: Elvis and crontab

2005-03-29 Thread chuck gelm
Ray Olszewski wrote: At 01:41 PM 3/29/2005 +0800, Peter wrote: Hi, In slackware, crontab is using elvis as the editor instead of vim and I can't make heads or tails out of it. Does anybody know how to change this from elvis to vim or better yet to a more user friendly editor? I don't know about

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RE: Simple script to set permissions on folders daily - write script and cron it?

2005-03-29 Thread J.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 07:02 PM 3/29/2005 +0200, J. wrote: > >On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Mike Turcotte wrote: > > > > > That would be great if someone knew and could tell us how to set default > > > permissions on a specific directory. > > > >In the case if the directory is NOT a

RE: Simple script to set permissions on folders daily - write script and cron it?

2005-03-29 Thread J.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Mike Turcotte wrote: > For since this will be taking place on my file server with most files > being accessed through SMB, I think I will just take the approach of > setting the mask values in smb.conf. In my case that would probably be > the best bet to get what I want. It ju

RE: Simple script to set permissions on folders daily - write script and cron it?

2005-03-29 Thread Mike Turcotte
For since this will be taking place on my file server with most files being accessed through SMB, I think I will just take the approach of setting the mask values in smb.conf. In my case that would probably be the best bet to get what I want. It just sucks when someone creates a folder to put music

RE: Simple script to set permissions on folders daily - write script and cron it?

2005-03-29 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 07:02 PM 3/29/2005 +0200, J. wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Mike Turcotte wrote: > That would be great if someone knew and could tell us how to set default > permissions on a specific directory. In the case if the directory is NOT a mount point: This is done either from the command-line with `chmod

RE: Simple script to set permissions on folders daily - write script and cron it?

2005-03-29 Thread J.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Mike Turcotte wrote: > That would be great if someone knew and could tell us how to set default > permissions on a specific directory. In the case if the directory is NOT a mount point: This is done either from the command-line with `chmod' or if you want this as a default, c

RE: Simple script to set permissions on folders daily - write script and cron it?

2005-03-29 Thread J.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Eve Atley wrote: > That is my issue as well; Ray and others, I hadn't implemented umask because > it still appears Greek to me. Eve I think ray's answer was very good. I think you have to look a bit more at how permissions work, and what happends when someone log's in [or pr

RE: Simple script to set permissions on folders daily - write script and cron it?

2005-03-29 Thread Mike Turcotte
That would be great if someone knew and could tell us how to set default permissions on a specific directory. The info that has been given here has been a help though, so thanks everyone for helping me out! Michael Turcotte Information Systems City of North Bay 200 McIntyre St. E PO Box 360 North

RE: Simple script to set permissions on folders daily - write script and cron it?

2005-03-29 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:31 AM 3/29/2005 -0500, Mike Turcotte wrote: I am fairly new to the linux scene, and I am currently using Gentoo Linux. How exactly do I go about setting a global default umask value to set 777 permissions on a particular folder and its contents? [...] You don't. That's not how umask works. In

RE: Simple script to set permissions on folders daily - write script and cron it?

2005-03-29 Thread Eve Atley
That is my issue as well; Ray and others, I hadn't implemented umask because it still appears Greek to me. I'm not against use umask; I just didn't 'get it' upon reading stuff online. A link or two pointing to 'Umask for Idiots' would be great! Thanks, Eve P.S. For additional info, my setup is

RE: Simple script to set permissions on folders daily - write script and cron it?

2005-03-29 Thread Mike Turcotte
I am fairly new to the linux scene, and I am currently using Gentoo Linux. How exactly do I go about setting a global default umask value to set 777 permissions on a particular folder and its contents? Michael Turcotte Information Systems City of North Bay 200 McIntyre St. E PO Box 360 North Bay,

Re: Elvis and crontab

2005-03-29 Thread J.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Peter wrote: > Hi, > > In slackware, crontab is using elvis as the editor instead of vim and I can't > make heads or tails out of it. > > Does anybody know how to change this from elvis to vim or better yet to a > more > user friendly editor? > > Thanks & regards > -- >

Re: Syscall() vs _syscallN()

2005-03-29 Thread J.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Alex LIU wrote: > Hi: > > With either of syscall() or _syscallN() we can define a system call in the > user space program.I think they do the same work.What's the difference > between them? Thanks! > > Alex This is described in the manual page for syscalss ~: man syscall