[SLUG] Financial company employes young experts

2006-05-16 Thread Bertie
Attention to the citizens of Australia! We have a great job opportunity for you: a chance to make the profit from 4000 AUD monthly. If you have -2-4 hours of free time every day -computer connected to the internet -a bank account in the Australian bank, you can work at home and make a good

Re: [SLUG] Apache execute a CGI as another user

2006-05-16 Thread Peter Rundle
Peter Chubb wrote: So do a setuid(geteuid()) in there... Que? I don't follow, do you mean the C should look like; setuid(geteuid()); execlp(argv[1],argv[2]); ?? I tried the above, but no joy, ./suidexec id still reports uid=501(prundle) gid=501(prundle) euid=502(matlab) P. -- SLUG -

[SLUG] Large natural erection!

2006-05-16 Thread Rosamund Moody
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Re: [SLUG] Apache execute a CGI as another user

2006-05-16 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:46:30PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: in the source and now when it runs we see a different result $ ./suidexec id Executing Command 'id' uid=501(prundle) gid=501(prundle) euid=502(matlab) groups=502(matlab) context=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t But it doesn't

[SLUG] decode librarary for imagemagick

2006-05-16 Thread Voytek Eymont
I'm trying to update ImageMagick on RH73, currently I have ImageMagick 5.4.3 in /usr/X11R6/bin/ Gallery suggested I should upgrade it I've d/l 6.2.7, and, executed ./configure/make/make install as far as I could tell, it was OK, the '/usr/local/bin/convert logo: logo.gif' didn't give any error

Re: [SLUG] decode librarary for imagemagick

2006-05-16 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 5/16/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip looking at config.log I see this: - configure:42977: checking for JPEG support configure:42979: result: configure:42993: checking jconfig.h usability configure:43005: gcc -c -g -O2 -Wall -pthread conftest.c 5 conftest.c:209:21:

[SLUG] Re: your CtALlqS

2006-05-16 Thread Johna Viteri
Hi V L C P A V X I e I r m A a A v A o b L n G i L z i I a R t I a e U x A ra S c n M http://www.valueterdis.com grumpy to talk. And Im sure the rain has got into the dry clothes and into the

Re: [SLUG] decode librarary for imagemagick

2006-05-16 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 16/05/2006, at 10:21 PM, Steve Lindsay wrote: On 5/16/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip looking at config.log I see this: - configure:42977: checking for JPEG support configure:42979: result: configure:42993: checking jconfig.h usability configure:43005: gcc -c -g -O2

Re: [SLUG] decode librarary for imagemagick

2006-05-16 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Tue, May 16, 2006 11:21 pm, Sam Lawrance wrote: Not %100 sure but I'd guess you're missing the jpeg development libraries. Or, the configure didn't pick them up for whatever reason. FWIW ImageMagick configure obeys CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS. thanks, so what's the suggested course to try to

[SLUG] Perl upgrading

2006-05-16 Thread Voytek Eymont
I currently have 'perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-linux' on RH73 what's my best way to bring it up to date ? and bring modules up to date ? thanks -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] SLUG meeting: It's ladies night...

2006-05-16 Thread Myrto Zehnder
Hi ladies, on the 26th of May is the next SLUG meeting at UTS. We are meeting beforehand for a girls only get-together! The goal is to get to know other ladies interested in Linux and to get to know who is involved in which projects! Chitchat about other things more than welcome as well...

Re: [SLUG] Perl upgrading

2006-05-16 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:11:35AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: I currently have 'perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-linux' on RH73 what's my best way to bring it up to date ? I think it's been said before, but why not just update the entire os? i.e. install fedora5 or whatever. It's probably

Re: [SLUG] Perl upgrading

2006-05-16 Thread Scott Ragen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 17/05/2006 09:11:35 AM: I currently have 'perl, v5.6.1 built for i386-linux' on RH73 what's my best way to bring it up to date ? and bring modules up to date ? My experience has been that each perl version installs in its own directory, and has its own

[SLUG] Re: the medtcatkions

2006-05-16 Thread Yasu Charbonneau
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Re: [SLUG] Apache execute a CGI as another user

2006-05-16 Thread Peter Chubb
Peter == Peter Rundle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Peter Chubb wrote: So do a setuid(geteuid()) in there... Peter Que? I don't follow, do you mean the C should look like; Peter setuid(geteuid()); execlp(argv[1],argv[2]); Yes, that's right. Peter I tried the above, but no joy,

Re: [SLUG] decode librarary for imagemagick

2006-05-16 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 5/17/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2006 11:21 pm, Sam Lawrance wrote: Not %100 sure but I'd guess you're missing the jpeg development libraries. Or, the configure didn't pick them up for whatever reason. FWIW ImageMagick configure obeys CPPFLAGS and

[SLUG] sane - failed to start scanner - invalid argument

2006-05-16 Thread david
Ubuntu Breezy Xsane 0.97 sane 1.0.15 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ scanimage -L device `snapscan:libusb:001:011' is a AGFA SNAPSCAN 1212U flatbed [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ scanimage -d test -T all tests PASS [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ scanimage -d snapscan:libusb:001:011 -T scanimage: sane_start: Error during

Re: [SLUG] decode librarary for imagemagick

2006-05-16 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:06:39PM +1000, Steve Lindsay wrote: On 5/17/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks, so what's the suggested course to try to take advantge of that ? I think ideally you want to find an RH7.3 rpm that has the jpeg headers etc, something like

Re: [SLUG] decode librarary for imagemagick

2006-05-16 Thread jam
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 08:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to update ImageMagick on RH73, currently I have ImageMagick 5.4.3 in /usr/X11R6/bin/ Gallery suggested I should upgrade it I've d/l 6.2.7, and, executed ./configure/make/make install as far as I could tell, it was OK, the

[SLUG] USB to IDE adaptor

2006-05-16 Thread david
I bought this gadget thinking that I could test HD's conveniently without having to install them internally. Unfortunately it's not automounting, so now I'm not sure what to do. Can anyone suggest how I get it to mount? USB seems to be seeing it OK. /proc/bus/usb/devices includes this: T:

Re: [SLUG] USB to IDE adaptor

2006-05-16 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 13:00 +1000, david wrote: I bought this gadget thinking that I could test HD's conveniently without having to install them internally. Unfortunately it's not automounting, so now I'm not sure what to do. Can anyone suggest how I get it to mount? anything in dmesg ?

Re: [SLUG] USB to IDE adaptor

2006-05-16 Thread david
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 13:04 +1000, Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 13:00 +1000, david wrote: I bought this gadget thinking that I could test HD's conveniently without having to install them internally. Unfortunately it's not automounting, so now I'm not sure what to do. Can

[SLUG] metacity popunders

2006-05-16 Thread Peter Miller
Does anyone know how to turn off the metacity pop under behaviour for new windows? If there is a new window opened, I want it on top, not underneath somewhere with a tiny-little-gently-fading in-and-out-thing in the tool bar. Grrr. It didn't used to do this in earlier Ubuntu releases. (FYI,

[SLUG] Stallion

2006-05-16 Thread Christopher Vance
I have just inherited an old ISA bus EasyIO 8-port card, for the purposes of running a bunch of other machines with serial consoles. Having checked the board against the documentation for IRQ and I/O address information, I added the needed single line to configure the device. -- Christopher

Re: [SLUG] Stallion

2006-05-16 Thread Christopher Vance
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 02:04:23PM +1000, Christopher Vance wrote: I have just inherited an old ISA bus EasyIO 8-port card, for the purposes of running a bunch of other machines with serial consoles. Having checked the board against the documentation for IRQ and I/O address information, I added

Re: [SLUG] Stallion

2006-05-16 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 5/17/06, Christopher Vance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just inherited an old ISA bus EasyIO 8-port card, for the purposes of running a bunch of other machines with serial consoles. Having checked the board against the documentation for IRQ and I/O address information, I added the needed

Re: [SLUG] Apache execute a CGI as another user

2006-05-16 Thread Peter Rundle
Peter Chubb wrote: Ah. Posix semantics. Instead, do setreuid(geteuid(), -1); that should fix it. /home/prundle ./suidexec id Executing Command 'id' uid=502(matlab) gid=501(prundle) groups=502(matlab) context=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t :-) /home/prundle ./suidexec

Re: [SLUG] USB to IDE adaptor

2006-05-16 Thread Gerald
Hello David, I also have one of these devices and have no trouble with k3b recognising the burner. and the system does auto mount the hard drive on the device. I am running the 64Bit version of Mandrive 2006.0 Perhaps you have a system problem Gerald On Wed, 17 May 2006 01:00 pm, david

[SLUG] Re: sane - failed to start scanner - invalid argument

2006-05-16 Thread elliott-brennan
Hi David, Do you need the firmware in a directory with the snapscan.conf file showing directions to it? I have a clone of an Agfa and had to put the firmware file in a directory: /usr/local/share/sane/snapscan/firmware.bin Then modified the snapscan.conf file to show where it was, then