Re: Yes..., I can destroy your system!

2003-01-22 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 19:06, Guy Fraser wrote: > EXPANDED: > When running as root, edit "/etc/sudoers" and grant yourself privledge to > certain commands or all commands. Then when running as a regular user you can > execute the enabled commands like this : > sudo /sbin/ifconfig Enhanced editing

Re: /etc/fstab

2003-02-06 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 09:12, David Sudjiman wrote: > Dear Senior, > > I'm using rh80 and curious about the /etc/fstab (I did man fstab) > 1. I found > none/dev/ptsdevptsgid=5,mode=62000 > none/procproc defaults 00 > none/dev/shmtmpfs defa

Re: Digital signature

2003-02-11 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
Hi, Outlook doesn't support OpenPGP. Period. There are ugly hacks (by PGP and others) that include the signed and encrypted messages in the body of the message, but that invites new problems. I just select the content, paste it to a file, and then verify/decrypt. And evolution doesn't screw my e

Re: Digital signature

2003-02-11 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 14:29, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Outlook doesn't support OpenPGP. Period. There are ugly hacks (by PGP > > and others) that include the signed and encrypted messages in the body > > of the message, but that invites new problems. > He uses pgp 8.0 not openpgp

Re: Digital signature

2003-02-11 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 14:42, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > I never uses unstable version my knowledge is not good enough to play > around. RH 7.3 and Evolution 1.2.1 > I must say i have rebooted my computer after the problems, and hope its > a one time event, it never happend before. Ok, sometim

Re: Squirrelmail download error

2003-03-12 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
Hi, I think you can safely remove the last ')'. Rui On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 13:29, Lachlan Evans wrote: > Yeah, I'm having the same problem too, I haven't really looked into > fixing it though. > > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 20:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My local ISP recently replaced its BSD-ba

Re: mail client text based

2003-03-20 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 14:48, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:53:13AM -0300, Sergio Durand wrote: > > nops... > > mutt works with pop3 but not smtp ... > I am clueless what is meant by mutt not working with smtp. What is > that supposed to mean? mutt relies on local 'sendmail' not

Re: find and replace text in files

2003-03-28 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 14:35, Piero Calucci wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 15:15, ghwbush wrote: > > I have a directory of about 60 files. I want to search these files and > > replace some text. Is there an easy way to do this from a command > > line? > > for file in `ls` ; do cat $file | sed '

Re: USB memory stick

2002-11-06 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
No, it isn't a kudzu problem. It's a problem of RTFM :) (now, WTFTMI I don't know, since I found out by testing a simple theory). You probably copied the entry from floppy or cdrom, I'd guess. They provide an option named kudzu (isn't that a huge hint?). Since the memory stick is probably not ava

Re: cdrecord obsolete

2002-11-07 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 17:08, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On 3 Nov 2002, Joe Klemmer wrote: > > This is one of the real difficulties on the Software Libre world. > >Developers (individual and in groups) have confused the whole 'alpha', > >'beta', 'gama' thing and have completely made useless versio

Re: kernel-source-2.4.18-18.0.i386.rpm

2002-11-21 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:52, Margaret_Doll wrote: > error: kernel-source-2.4.18-18.0.i386.rpm cannot be installed > I get the same error message if I try to install > kernel-smp-2.4.18-18.0.i686.rpm on the system. You can do: rpm -Kvv kernel-source-2.4.18-18.0.i386.rpm And see if the package

Re: Postgres Fix

2002-11-22 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 06:30, David Durst wrote: > Won't start up > > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:49:27 -0800 (PST) > > David Durst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # What is the fix for postgres? > > Or more importantly, what is the problem with postgres? > > -- > > Jesse Keating Hi, Maybe postgresql is

Re: Postgres Fix

2002-11-25 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
Hi, The runlevel is supposed to be there. That was so you could know (if you didn't yet) which level it was. Then chkconfig showed the status of postgresql on that runlevel. You didn't confirm or deny that it was supposed to launch with your answer. Worse, you just complain that it fails... sin

Re: Evolution

2002-12-03 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
in five words: virtual folders On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 14:08, Donald G Wilson Jr wrote: > While i like evolution as an email program, i do seem to have some > problems adjusting to it's methods of filters. > > Is there someplace to see a log of filtering so i can look at a given > 'filtered' messag

Re: ATI 9700 PRO and Multi-Head Configuration

2002-12-11 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
This isn't going to be of much help to you, of course, but can you, or anyone at all, tell me which ATI cards have very good 3d acceleration with the native XFree86 drivers? TIA, rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it

Re: Some problems with latex in redhat 8.0

2003-01-07 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
Hello, that is a known problem. UTF-8 support for latex is absent in RedHat 8.0. Check my comment on bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71498 To get unicode support. Good luck, Rui On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 16:03, Armando Ferreira wrote: > Hi, > > I've a hp omnibook laptop

Re: Driver for HP Monitor Ultra VGA 1280

2003-01-08 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 12:36, Gerard Zwart wrote: > Trying to install RH 8.0 on a HP Vectra VL5/200, 64 Mb memory.. > Videocard S3Trio64V2 (Generic) is discovered during the probe. > > The monitor HP Ultra VGA 1280 ( quit a known monitor) not. > Does anybody knows a driver for it, and know how to i

Re: list users

2003-01-15 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
Hi, You can do it in several ways... The first one is very simple, but using awk will give you some more power. It all rather depends on what you need. To get only the user names (meditate [man] over this commands to do yet more): * cut -d : -f 1 < /etc/passwd * awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"} {print $1}'

Re: list users

2003-01-15 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 17:50, Derek Martin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 05:40:20PM +0000, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > > or, if you want only the 'normal' users: ^ ^ > > awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"} $3>=500 {print $1}&#

Re: PGI compilers not working on RH 8.0, 2.4.18-17.8.0

2002-11-13 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 15:23, Margaret_Doll wrote: > I just upgraded my systems to RedHat 8.0 including the kernel patch on > their web page. > The systems are at 2.4.18-17.8.0. > I get the following error when I run PG 4.0 on my systems. > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open > /usr/lib/gc

nautilus usability suggestion

2002-10-07 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
I suggest to use the following as default in future releases: /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir = true The rationale is that the home directory seems like a very logical place where you drop your Documents, Downloads, etc... and you see your home and all you can reach from there. C

Re: nautilus usability suggestion

2002-10-07 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 08:48, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > I am not interested in seeing the whole contents of my home directory on > my desktop. Seeing your home directory as your desktop is only good if > you have 6-10 things in your home directory...more than that, and you > have a UI problem. Well

RE: nautilus usability suggestion

2002-10-07 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 09:04, Cochran Robert L (NO) wrote: > I would like it if OpenOffice could detect directories with a leading dot > '.' even more. That's an unrelated problem. gtk dialogs don't show the dot directories, but if you type: .[first letter] you'll get the expansion just right as y

rpm && digital signatures

2002-10-14 Thread Rui Miguel Seabra
Hello, rpm now verifies the digital signatures of packages. And that is good! However, rpm also considers as a simple and valid signature md5 (when gpg/pgp signature is not present). And that is not so good :| My question is (well, that's two but it's for the smae thing): How do I confi