I emerged mail-notification awhile back (someone on this list was talking about it.) I opened a terminal and typed in mail-notification and I get this message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mail-notification (mail-notification:15971): Gnome-WARNING **: Accessibility: failed to find module 'libgail-gnome' which is needed to make this application accessible GTK Accessibility Module initialized (mail-notification:15971): Gnome-WARNING **: Accessibility: failed to find module 'libatk-bridge' which is needed to make this application accessible mail-notification-Message: Mail Notification is already running It claims to be already running, but I don't see it anywhere on the panel. I have a notification area applet running, but it's not showing me anything... On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 11:22 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: > Michael Sullivan schreef: > > My network updates its software every night at midnight. There was a > > problem with a couple of blocking packages night before last, so I > > unmerged the two blocking packages and did the emerge -avuD world in a > > screen. Now they're done and I can no longer su - to root from my > > personal account. I have to log completely out and then log in as root > > from the login screen. I use users-admin for my user maintenance, but > > now there's a tab that says "User Privileges" where the "User's Groups" > > tab used to be, so I can't figure out how to make sure that my personal > > account is in the right group(s) to su - to root. A lot of things are > > different now. I keep a gnome-terminal open at all times and it the > > prompt now shows "[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $" when I'm in my home directory > > instead of "[EMAIL PROTECTED] michael $" which I preferred. I could su - to > > root yesterday while the upgrades were taking place and root's prompt > > was the same. And then my Inbox Monitor applet is gone, so I have to > > click on the running evolution button every time I want to see if I have > > any email (which is quite often actually). Is there any way I can fix > > all this, or at least get my su - privileges back? > > > > > > Obviously the su to root issue is more important, but I know the cause > of the other two issues (the change in the prompt and the loss of the > mail checking tool). > > The change from "[EMAIL PROTECTED] explicit home directory name" to "[EMAIL > PROTECTED] > ~", is, I believe, a change in Bash, which only affects (afaik) the > display name of the user's home directory. First of all, in Bash 3, the > usage of /w and /W have been reversed; the lowercase now expands the > full path display and the upper case truncates to just the cwd (current > working directory). > > Somewhere in the revisions to Bash 2.05, the expansion of the /w and /W > variables when in your /home was changed so that /home/username (or > /root), which the /w variable already truncated (showing just the > directory without the path to it), has been shortened from multiple > characters (whose username is just one character?) to one character: ~, > which is the commonly acknowledged abbreviation for /home/username. > > This affects the display no matter how deep you go into the user's /home > directory (at least in Bash 3; I just upgraded, and I don't think Bash > 2.05 -r9 did this)-- /home/username/.mozilla/firefox is now displayed as > ~/.mozilla/firefox. I'm almost sure that yesterday (when I was still > using Bash 2.05) it would have been /home/motub/.mozilla/firefox. > > But actually, I like it; I currently have my prompt split over 3 lines > to prevent long cwds from destroying my prompt; this might mean I could > lower that number to 2 lines, since the display of the cwd is much > shorter by default. Other than that, I see no way to change it (it's a > feature, not a bug), other than changing shells, which is also a > possibility, of course-- but I, at least would need a better reason than > that to go to the troule of learning a new shell, when I hardly know bash. > > ---------------------------------------------- > > As for the mail checker-- you must have upgraded from <=GNOME 2.8.x to > GNOME 2.10. The previously included mail-notification utility does not > work with GNOME 2.10, and in fact should have been removed. Try > mail-notification (emerge mail-notification); it's a nice email checker > for the GNOME panel whose benefit is that you can set it up to check > both POP mail and GMail (possibly only if you have POP download > enabled), as well as other types of accounts, such as IMAP or system mail. > > I have also used GBiff (emerge gnubiff), which is much cuter with a > Povray Tux icon, but I don't believe it checks GMail. But for general > use, it's fine, and has much the same featureset as mail-notification. > > And of course, there's GkrellM's mail notification plugin, gDesklets may > a mail checking utility, and various dockapps provide this functionality > as well, if you happen to use a dock. > > So you just have to use a different program of your choice, rather than > relying on a pre-installed tool. > > ----------------------------------------------- > > As to the inability to su to root, assuming that the user is in the > wheel group-- don't I remember hearing that this is some issue with the > update to 'shadow'(or pam and shadow), and something has to be fixed in > /etc/login.defs.... oh right, it's something about the > SU_WHEEL_ONLY=yes, which sounds like it means that only the wheel group > should be able to su, but in fact means that only members the ROOT group > (who are also members of the wheel group) can su (due to another setting > in another file which also restricts the ability to su)... I read here > that the solution is to change this setting to NO. But that results, as > I understand it, in everybody and their little sister being able to su > to root, which is not really optimal. > > A better proposed solution is to reset SU_WHEEL_ONLY to 'no' and also to > > "create /etc/suauth with this single line... > > root:ALL EXCEPT GROUP wheel:DENY > > ...and now only members of the wheel group can su to root, while > everybody can su to everybody else (password permitting)." > > [copy and paste from the forums] > > Hope this helps, > Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
