Re: setgid: Operation not permitted

2003-12-30 Thread Jos Lemmerling
erwise, the environment is passed along, with the exception of $PATH, which is controlled by PATH and SUPATH in /etc/default/su. Additionally, the user's project ID is set if the dash argument is present. See settaskid(2). In most cases it's better to use the little dash... :) grtz -

Re: group

2003-12-26 Thread Jos Lemmerling
his also *could* have to do with the above; it's very easy to make a mistake with an accidental "mouse-move". These kind of mistakes *as root* aren't very funny... :( Maybe it's just a way of letting you know/confirm you're running konquerer as root. But I don't

Re: group

2003-12-25 Thread Jos Lemmerling
and a "sudo vim" etc. etc. but that's a lot of work and typing... :) And you could ask yourself why the users do have seperate logins and not just one login for all of them... But if someone knows a way to automagicly set the default permissions on files in a directory (just lik

Re: group

2003-12-25 Thread Jos Lemmerling
an) systems the default group on newly created files is the group of the user itself, so that doesn't make any difference. Obviously it's another story when the default group isn't its own usergroup. What other option do you recommend then? grtz -- Jos Lemmerling on Debian GNU/

Re: iptables & a dhcpd question

2003-02-27 Thread Jos Lemmerling
good to flush your firewall-settings at the start of the script. And please... Try to quote like it should be; below the answers. It's much easier to read that way! But it seems to me, this list doesn't care about that... :( HTH -- Jos Lemmerling on Debian GNU/Linux jos

Re: file transfer via telnet

2003-02-21 Thread Jos Lemmerling
ransmission mediums that do not support other than simple ASCII data. If someone knows *how* to do it, plz let the list know... HTH -- Jos Lemmerling on Debian GNU/Linux jos(@)lemmerling(.nl) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-new

Re: Which Debian to use?

2003-02-09 Thread Jos Lemmerling
y solid and easy to handle. More info on this release: http://www.debian.org/News/2002/20020719 HTH -- Jos Lemmerling on Debian GNU/Linux jos(@)lemmerling(.nl) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a messag

Re: Kernel

2002-10-23 Thread Jos Lemmerling
ht and you'll get the full source immediately. Otherwise forget that i mentioned it ;) HTH -- Jos Lemmerling on Debian GNU/Linux jos(@)lemmerling(.net) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMA

Re: && - Help

2002-09-30 Thread Jos Lemmerling
mmand that I saw it in. > > watch -n 1 "/hylafax/etc/errorstats.sh /hylafax/etc/xferfaxlog && > > faxstat -asl && echo && tail /var/log/messages" > > > > Also why is the echo necessary. > > > > Cross Posted due to relevancy.

Re: bash scripts creating log files

2002-09-17 Thread Jos Lemmerling
and appended to the file "logfile.txt". If you don't use the "-a" the file is overwritten every time. HTH -- Jos Lemmerling on Debian GNU/Linux jos(@)lemmerling(.net) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie"

Re: Something funny in Mail

2002-07-14 Thread Jos Lemmerling
05a$ mail Unknown command: "jopie" No mail for jos On that moment the file '.mailrc' was containing 'jopie'. When i deleted the name it works fine again. HTH -- Jos Lemmerling on Debian GNU/Linux jos(@)lemmerling(.net) - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: User in multiple groups

2002-07-03 Thread Jos Lemmerling
l can't write to files for which i have permission. Is there something > else i need to do? logout, or reboot? Or does all that stuff take effect > immediately? You'll just have to re-login. The file is interpreted on login. Grtz -- Jos Lemmerling on Debian GNU/Linux

Re: process time limit?

2002-06-26 Thread Jos Lemmerling
t, you'll have to make sure the knows the PID of that program or script (which was started by cron). You'll probarly have to use the temperary file to store the PID. If you want to check it more often, created a new cronjob for this (and a seperate script), about 10 minutes or so after the

Re: Reg:gcc

2002-06-26 Thread Jos Lemmerling
he current directory. If you want to try it, try a "ls -l .", you should see the content of the current directory (output should be the same as "ls -l"). HTH -- Jos Lemmerling on Debian GNU/Linux jos(@)lemmerling(.net) - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: Syslog - doubt

2002-06-05 Thread Jos Lemmerling
ething wrong? Can access to syslog > be restrcted? perhaps you can build some sort of a test in your program so the program doesn't "flood" the syslog. I've some messages in my syslog: "last message repeated n times". Maybe something like that is what you're