Re: [newbie] Administration Question

2000-06-06 Thread Darryl Gibson
Bob wrote: Why do I think that the message below has anything to do with me, and how many others have wondered the same thing. It would be appreciated if people could consider if what they are replying to has meaning to everyone on the list. Thank you. Bob Root On Mon, 05 Jun 2000,

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

2000-06-06 Thread Stephen Weltman
CTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 7:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Administration Question because it was a reply to an answer by said flupke to a post by me composed by reading his/her answer and choosing reply to sender from the appropriate menu, it should have appeared appropriately in the thread

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

2000-06-06 Thread Piero
Yes, It's hardly understandable. And from the little I can understand, I think it better stays in its rude, uncivlised darkness. -- Piero. Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Stephen Weltman wrote: I don't mean to be rude, but that is the worst run-on sentence I have ever encountered! I don't think that your

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

2000-06-06 Thread Bob
My point exactly, that is having no knowledge of what your message might have contained, but having a subject of "Administration Question" we opened the thing and viewed a very nice "Thank You". I would suggest that between just two lists, newbies and blt, upwards of 200 hundred messages are

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

2000-06-06 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
Amen to that. Dacia --- "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mean to be rude, but that is the worst run-on sentence I have ever encountered! I don't think that your intended receiver got what you meant clearly. = Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:19:30 No

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

2000-06-05 Thread bascule
thanks flupke bascule

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

2000-06-05 Thread Bob
Why do I think that the message below has anything to do with me, and how many others have wondered the same thing. It would be appreciated if people could consider if what they are replying to has meaning to everyone on the list. Thank you. Bob Root On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, you wrote: thanks

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

2000-06-05 Thread bascule
because it was a reply to an answer by said flupke to a post by me composed by reading his/her answer and choosing reply to sender from the appropriate menu, it should have appeared appropriately in the thread unless you had deleted all previous thread posts, since i was 'merely' being courteous

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

2000-06-03 Thread Paul
On Wed, 31 May 2000, John Rye wrote: Hi, it would be indeed the proper way to do as you already wrote. Create a new directory, chown that to anyone.group_where_fred_and_tom_will_be_in and then add tom and fred to that group. Paul I have two users call them 'fred' and 'tom' I need for these

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

2000-06-03 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, you wrote: Two options. Very Large Snip Thank You, Problem solved Cheers

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

2000-06-03 Thread bascule
hi flupke, your answer to john's post is interesting because it says that a group can own files, i always assumed that an 'owner' had to be a user (though i never saw that written anywhere), can a group also be a member of another group like a user can? bascule flupke wrote: I think the best

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

2000-06-03 Thread flupke
Hi Bascule, I didn't really meant that a group can own a file (even if the man chgrp says : chgrp - change group ownership). Sorry if I didn't express myself correctly. I just meant that there are permissions to a file that are specific to a particular group. I might be wrong, but I don't

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

2000-06-02 Thread flupke
I think the best way to make what you want would be to create a new group dedicated to the files shared by fred and tom. Lets call it fredandtom (groupadd fredandtom). Make Both fred and tom member of this new group (by adding "fred,tom" to the entry fredandtom in the /etc/group file). Then make

Re: [newbie] Administration Question

2000-06-02 Thread Jeffrey B. Ferland
I have two users call them 'fred' and 'tom' I need for these two users to be able to share files (usually text). Both users are members of their own groups named for their usernames. How should I go about this? 'fred' may NOT have access to 'tom's files and 'tom' may NOT have access