Re: permissions and fstab

2001-03-28 Thread Justin B Rye
Carel Fellinger wrote: > Or look through /etc/passwd. > >$ grep carel /etc/passwd >carel:x:1001:1001:Carel Fellinger,,,:/home/carel:/bin/bash Or for variety (and a saving of milliseconds) do it this way: $ getent passwd jbr jbr:x:1013:1013:Justin B Rye,,,:/home/j

Re: visudo not vi?

2001-03-14 Thread Justin B Rye
ly on this count, since it is a functional bonsai-scale editor any fool can pick up on their first encounter - no "learning" is necessary (or worthwhile, unless they're going to be keeping it as the only editor on the system). But ae will do. Just about. -- Justin B Rye - writing (in jed) from but not for Datacash Ltd

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-14 Thread Justin B Rye
- the three I have it use are =netscape, 2=mozilla, and 3="xterm -e w3m &". -- Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd

Re: event viewer application

2001-02-09 Thread Justin B Rye
ad them without being root if you're in the "adm" group). I don't know of any good GUI logfile-readers, but anyway I wouldn't swap one for what I have got - the package "logcheck", which monitors the logs for anomalies and mails me regular "edited highlights". -- Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd

Re: adding user to dip group doesn't work

2001-02-07 Thread Justin B Rye
user to ensure > they are actually in the right groups. Or "id"; and there's "members" (in its own package) to tell you who's in a given group. -- Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd

Re: Newbie upgrading question

2001-01-30 Thread Justin B Rye
self some problems going from slink to potato using just dpkg - do you know about dselect? -- Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd

Re: crontab ?

2001-01-29 Thread Justin B Rye
possible you've ended up with duplicate headers? Compare the DEBIAN SPECIFIC section in "man crontab". -- Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd

Re: crontab ?

2001-01-29 Thread Justin B Rye
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:56:02PM +0000, Justin B Rye wrote: >> This is a strange way to want to set a crontab... Dave Sherohman wrote: > Actually, considering that it's how crontab expects to work if no flags are > given, I suspect that `crontab ` is the most historicall

Re: crontab ?

2001-01-29 Thread Justin B Rye
;ll work, but the file might need to be executable or something. > Eth0Dwn > 00 21 * * * /sbin/ifdown eth0 I presume you mean that the file "Eth0Dwn" contains that line. What do you see when you "crontab -l"? Why do you want to do this anyway? Isn't it simpler to

Re: jpeg bad bitmap format file (was: xsetroot -bitmap)

2001-01-26 Thread Justin B Rye
that it really has saved it as that format, not just with the extension .bmp - you can check this quickly and easily with "file": $ file foo.bmp foo.bmp:PC bitmap data, Windows 3.x format, 256 x 256 x 24 But they're right, don't use .bmp! -- Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd

Re: .Xdefaults problem

2001-01-25 Thread Justin B Rye
Torben Korte wrote: > in the ~/.Xdefaults file i have put some thinks for xemacs but the file > isn't read on startup? Did I get the wrong file or the wrong place for > the file? Thanks ~/.Xresources -- Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd

Re: SSH

2001-01-18 Thread Justin B Rye
#x27;t *restrictively* licensed. (If a piece of software isn't licensed at all - if, say, there turns out to be a crippling flaw in its legal verbiage - that doesn't mean anybody can rip it off without comeback; it means that nobody is entitled to use it. I know what you mean; but it

Re: [OT] two domains and one ip / apache [ css weirdness ]

2001-01-16 Thread Justin B Rye
le's location. > The text should render als helvetica but the output is times new roman, > opening the page without using apache (file - open ...) uses the style sheet What exactly is it you're trusting the reactions of here? Would it happen to be Internet Explorer? -- Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd

Re: [OT] two domains and one ip / apache [ css weirdness ]

2001-01-16 Thread Justin B Rye
a It's saying that something is pointing at an impossible filename, and if that string's really anything like a URL it's being told to fetch data from I don't blame it. /:/? htdocs? /./? .meta? What's your DocumentRoot, where relative to that are your stylesheets, what

Re: (newbie) how can I change the display resolution???

2001-01-15 Thread Justin B Rye
from an unnecessary panic, but at least people here might find it funny. -- Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd

Re: [OT] See you next year...

2000-12-31 Thread Justin B Rye
ev/null have been > growing above their usual restrictions lately -- but i'm still > on potato (2.2.17). who's responsible for this anomaly? Well, who's got root on your machine? >> ;-) -- Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd grep gullible /usr/share/dict/words

Re: mutt question...

2000-12-06 Thread Justin B Rye
ush \eV' These days mutt allows you to reference things by function-name, which is more robust if like me you've been messing about with all the key-bindings, and clearer even if not: folder-hook . 'push ' Works for me... -- Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd

Re: to install or not to install

2000-12-05 Thread Justin B Rye
oking for "WWW-wo-Miru", the .deb is called w3m, so you needn't resort to tarballs for that one. See "http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/w3m.html";. -- Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd

slaying the inodosaur

2000-12-04 Thread Justin B Rye
d "rm -rf" as safe as I'm going to get, or is it worth messing about with "while sleep 1 do stopafter..."? -- Justin B Rye - writing from but not for Datacash Ltd

Re: scp from stdin

2000-11-30 Thread Justin B Rye
but you could try: > > $ tar cz ~user | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'umask 077 && cat >outfile.tgz' > > ofcourse umask is futile if the file allready exists:( Well, try tempfile: $ tar cz ~user | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ 'umask 077 && OUT=$(tempfile -d