Re: [SLUG] chmod

2004-09-07 Thread Terry Collins
Andrewd wrote: I have a bunch of files I need to chmod. All files exist under a main directory and also under sub directories (of the main). I know I can chmod 666 *.php but I need to do that in each directory. How do I tell it to go thru each sub directory and change the files chmod -R 666

[SLUG] db-4.2.52 install problem

2004-09-07 Thread David
I'm trying to install netatalk which requires BerkeleyDB.4.2 I've downloaded the tarball for db4 and built it according to instructions (I think). The output of #make install is below. It looks OK to me. When I configure netatalk, it tells me db4 isn't there (see below). What did I do wrong? Any

Re: [SLUG] db-4.2.52 install problem

2004-09-07 Thread Tony Green
On 07/09/2004, at 4:30 PM, David wrote: I'm trying to install netatalk which requires BerkeleyDB.4.2 I've downloaded the tarball for db4 and built it according to instructions (I think). The output of #make install is below. It looks OK to me. When I configure netatalk, it tells me db4 isn't

Re: [SLUG] db-4.2.52 install problem

2004-09-07 Thread David
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Tony Green wrote: On 07/09/2004, at 4:30 PM, David wrote: I'm trying to install netatalk which requires BerkeleyDB.4.2 I've downloaded the tarball for db4 and built it according to instructions (I think). The output of #make install is below. It looks OK to me. When

Re: [SLUG] chmod

2004-09-07 Thread Peter Miller
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 15:55, Christopher Vance wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 03:39:26PM +1000, David Gillies wrote: or just a plain old chmod -R 666 *.php This won't do it. chmod -R og=u . -- Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [SLUG] chmod

2004-09-07 Thread Phil Scarratt
Peter Miller wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 15:55, Christopher Vance wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 03:39:26PM +1000, David Gillies wrote: or just a plain old chmod -R 666 *.php This won't do it. chmod -R og=u . chmod -R 666 * will work, unless you don't want all files to be changed, in which case

Re: [SLUG] db-4.2.52 install problem

2004-09-07 Thread David
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Erich Muschka Schulz wrote: thanks.. but this is what I did: #./configure --with-bdb=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2/include also tried #./configure --with-bdb=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.2 no luck :( Sometimes it is worth trying where the default location is. I

Re: [SLUG] db-4.2.52 install problem

2004-09-07 Thread David
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Erich Muschka Schulz wrote: PS: I have not seen any of my posts on the list. If you get this email, can you please reply to me personally as well as the list. probably all bouncing... I copied my post to you and got this diagnostic: Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] db-4.2.52 install problem

2004-09-07 Thread David
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Darren Williams wrote: Hi David On Tue, 07 Sep 2004, David wrote: I'm trying to install netatalk which requires BerkeleyDB.4.2 I've downloaded the tarball for db4 and built it according to instructions (I think). The output of #make install is below. It looks OK

Re: [SLUG] db-4.2.52 install problem

2004-09-07 Thread Darren Williams
Hi David On Tue, 07 Sep 2004, David wrote: On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Darren Williams wrote: Hi David On Tue, 07 Sep 2004, David wrote: I'm trying to install netatalk which requires BerkeleyDB.4.2 I've downloaded the tarball for db4 and built it according to instructions (I

Re: [SLUG] chmod

2004-09-07 Thread Darren Williams
Hi Phil On Tue, 07 Sep 2004, Phil Scarratt wrote: Peter Miller wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 15:55, Christopher Vance wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 03:39:26PM +1000, David Gillies wrote: or just a plain old chmod -R 666 *.php This won't do it. chmod -R og=u . chmod -R

Re: [SLUG] Problem with video

2004-09-07 Thread Michael Chesterton
Heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am still having a problem with my display. Whwn I install Morphix I I don't know the answer to your poroblem, but since it looks like no one has replied, it can't hurt to have a stab. When I click to close a program a small square of the screen is left My

Re: [SLUG] db-4.2.52 install problem

2004-09-07 Thread Tony Green
On 07/09/2004, at 5:01 PM, David wrote: On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Tony Green wrote: On 07/09/2004, at 4:30 PM, David wrote: I'm trying to install netatalk which requires BerkeleyDB.4.2 I've downloaded the tarball for db4 and built it according to instructions (I think). The output of #make install is

[SLUG] Connecting Mandrake to Redhat server

2004-09-07 Thread Elliott-Brennan
Hi, Very new to Linux. I've created a RH 9.0 server (at home), with Webmin interface. I can access the server (for file transfer etc) on my Win2000 machine (easy!) BUT cannot for the life of me (ironically) workout how to connect my Mandrake 10.0 machine. I've looked around for directions, but

Re: [SLUG] chmod

2004-09-07 Thread mlh
On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 20:13:23 +1000 Andrewd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a bunch of files I need to chmod. All files exist under a main directory and also under sub directories (of the main). I know I can chmod 666 *.php but I need to do that in each directory. How do I tell it to go thru

Re: [SLUG] Connecting Mandrake to Redhat server

2004-09-07 Thread Michael Chesterton
Elliott-Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I started using Linux about 6 weeks ago and have created the server, a Smoothwall firewall, networked all my pcs and even accidentally deleted my login profile in Mandrake - I feel a bit like Dr Frankenstein creating all these machines! I must say

[SLUG] 2gb file size limit

2004-09-07 Thread Lyle Chapman
Can anyone help? I have a really annoying problem with Fedora Core 2. I am trying to create video sequences that will end up larger than 2gb in size, I cannot find anywhere how to solve this. If someone could point me in the right direction it would be very much appreciated. THANKS Lyle

Re: [SLUG] db-4.2.52 install problem

2004-09-07 Thread David
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Darren Williams wrote: I'm trying to install netatalk which requires BerkeleyDB.4.2 I've downloaded the tarball for db4 and built it according to instructions (I think). The output of #make install is below. It looks OK to me. When I configure netatalk, it

Re: [SLUG] 2gb file size limit

2004-09-07 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 10:04:59 +1000 Lyle Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone help? I have a really annoying problem with Fedora Core 2. I am trying to create video sequences that will end up larger than 2gb in size, I cannot find anywhere how to solve this. If someone could point

Re: [SLUG] 2gb file size limit

2004-09-07 Thread O Plameras
I believe you need to re-compile your application program with: gcc -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 This will enable your application to access 2 exponent 63 file size. (Exponent is 63 because computers start counting from 0 not 1) By default gcc assumes 2 exponent 31 file size. Lyle Chapman wrote:

Re: [SLUG] chmod

2004-09-07 Thread David Gillies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this will probably be wasted unless you fix the dirs as well: find . -type f -exec chmod g=rwx,o=rx {} \; Ummm, if you want to fix the directories, you'd be better off running this: find . -type d -exec chmod g=rwx,o=rx {} \; Your command was setting all

[SLUG] how to find user's original id?

2004-09-07 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I'm writing a script that's run by users as sudo, and I'm trying to find the original user's id. Does anyone know how to do this? eg: ~$ id uid=1002(sonia) gid=1002(sonia) groups=1002(sonia),27(sudo) ~$ sudo bash ~# id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) When I run the 'id' command it

Re: [SLUG] how to find user's original id?

2004-09-07 Thread scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/09/2004 11:23:43 AM: I'm writing a script that's run by users as sudo, and I'm trying to find the original user's id. Does anyone know how to do this? eg: ~$ id uid=1002(sonia) gid=1002(sonia) groups=1002(sonia),27(sudo) ~$ sudo bash ~# id

Re: [SLUG] how to find user's original id?

2004-09-07 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:23:43 +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: When I run the 'id' command it returns uid=1002. But after sudo'ing to root, the id command returns uid=0(root). How would I find the user's original id before they sudo'd to root? sudo sets both real and effective id to root, so

Re: [SLUG] Connecting Mandrake to Redhat server

2004-09-07 Thread James Gregory
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 22:56 +1000, Elliott-Brennan wrote: Hi, Very new to Linux. I've created a RH 9.0 server (at home), with Webmin interface. I can access the server (for file transfer etc) on my Win2000 machine (easy!) BUT cannot for the life of me (ironically) workout how to connect my

Re: [SLUG] 2gb file size limit

2004-09-07 Thread James Gregory
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 10:23 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 10:04:59 +1000 Lyle Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone help? I have a really annoying problem with Fedora Core 2. I am trying to create video sequences that will end up larger than 2gb in size,

Re: [SLUG] 2gb file size limit

2004-09-07 Thread O Plameras
James Gregory wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 10:23 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 10:04:59 +1000 Lyle Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone help? I have a really annoying problem with Fedora Core 2. I am trying to create video sequences that will end up larger

Re: [SLUG] chmod

2004-09-07 Thread mlh
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:04:41AM +1000, David Gillies wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this will probably be wasted unless you fix the dirs as well: find . -type f -exec chmod g=rwx,o=rx {} \; Ummm, if you want to fix the directories, you'd be better off running this:

Re: [SLUG] 2gb file size limit

2004-09-07 Thread mlh
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:04:59AM +1000, Lyle Chapman wrote: I have a really annoying problem with Fedora Core 2. I am trying to create video sequences that will end up larger than 2gb in size, I cannot find anywhere how to solve this. For what it's worth, (most?) software that deals with

Re: [SLUG] Linux,Laptops and Suspension

2004-09-07 Thread Harald Richard Ashburner
Jason Rennie said: Hi all, I was wondering what people would recommend in terms of having suspend functionality on a laptop under linux ? I've got ACPI running so the battery meter works, but suspend does not work according to the ACPI doc's. I'm running 2.4.26, and I found SWSUS, which claims

[SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian

2004-09-07 Thread Terry Collins
What do people use to encode mp3s on debian? Most programs don't actually exist in the debian stuff. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing People without trees are like

Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian

2004-09-07 Thread Brett Fenton
lame On Wednesday 08 September 2004 15:14, Terry Collins wrote: What do people use to encode mp3s on debian? Most programs don't actually exist in the debian stuff. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles,

Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian

2004-09-07 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 15:14 +1000, Terry Collins wrote: What do people use to encode mp3s on debian? Most programs don't actually exist in the debian stuff. I know this doesn't answer your question... but why not use flac or ogg ? Rob -- GPG key available at:

Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian

2004-09-07 Thread Brett Fenton
umm because 99% of portable music players don't support the formats? brett On Wednesday 08 September 2004 15:20, Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 15:14 +1000, Terry Collins wrote: What do people use to encode mp3s on debian? Most programs don't actually exist in the debian

Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian

2004-09-07 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 15:14:45 +1000, Terry Collins uttered What do people use to encode mp3s on debian? I use LAME. (It isn't in Debian proper due to the Fraunhofer patent madness.) This link explains it quite nicely: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/12/msg04123.html These days, I will

Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian

2004-09-07 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Brett Fenton umm because 99% of portable music players don't support the formats? But some do, so buy those and stop supporting software patents :) To answer the original question, I added ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main as a repository. It has a bunch of

Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian

2004-09-07 Thread Craige McWhirter
Terry Collins said: What do people use to encode mp3s on debian? Most programs don't actually exist in the debian stuff. Sound Juicer is the goods for several formats including the high quality Ogg Vorbis and Fruahenhoff's MP3 product. (package name is sound-juicer) Debian has all the goodies

Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian

2004-09-07 Thread Craige McWhirter
Jan Schmidt said: quote who=Brett Fenton umm because 99% of portable music players don't support the formats? But some do, so buy those and stop supporting software patents :) The Rio karma looks very nice. -- Cheers, Craige. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Linux,Laptops and Suspension

2004-09-07 Thread Simon Bowden
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Harald Richard Ashburner wrote: Jason Rennie said: Hi all, I was wondering what people would recommend in terms of having suspend functionality on a laptop under linux ? I've got ACPI running so the battery meter works, but suspend does not work according to the ACPI doc's. I'm

Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian

2004-09-07 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 15:31 +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote: Jan Schmidt said: quote who=Brett Fenton umm because 99% of portable music players don't support the formats? But some do, so buy those and stop supporting software patents :) The Rio karma looks very nice. I'm looking

Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian

2004-09-07 Thread Terry Collins
Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 15:14 +1000, Terry Collins wrote: What do people use to encode mp3s on debian? Most programs don't actually exist in the debian stuff. I know this doesn't answer your question... but why not use flac or ogg ? short answer emule, long

Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian

2004-09-07 Thread Terry Collins
Craige McWhirter wrote: Terry Collins said: What do people use to encode mp3s on debian? Most programs don't actually exist in the debian stuff. Sound Juicer is the goods for several formats including the high quality Ogg Vorbis and Fruahenhoff's MP3 product. (package name is

Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian

2004-09-07 Thread Craige McWhirter
Terry Collins said: Robert Collins wrote: I know this doesn't answer your question... but why not use flac or ogg ? short answer emule, long answer, I serving up to MS systems as well. There's plenty of Ogg support on MS platforms, FWIW. -- Cheers, Craige. -- SLUG - Sydney