I am trying to create a script so users can execute a certain command as root
without entering a password. I thought suid was the way to do this, but I am
not having any success.
The command I want to execute as root is echo -n mem /sys/power/status.
I created a bash script
On Friday 27 January 2006 09:43 pm, Robert Persson wrote:
On Thursday 26 January 2006 16:22 Richard Fish was like:
test doesn't output anything...it indicates success/failure with the
exit code.
...
As others have said though, watch out for the 'test' command built-in
to many shells,
On 28 January 2006 06:14, Abhay Kedia wrote:
Is TZ set in your environment? If so, unset it and let /etc/localtime do
the job.
How can I know what is the TZ in my environment? Just curious.
env | grep TZ
Uwe
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Nagatoro wrote:
Hi,
I have a very annoying problem. I can't open web links by clicking them.
If I set the default (Control-Center-KDE Components-Component Chooser
and File Associations) and it works from pure KDE applications
but from others (eg thunderbird and xchat) it doesn't work. This
On 28 January 2006 09:55, Robert Persson wrote:
I am trying to create a script so users can execute a certain command as
root without entering a password. I thought suid was the way to do this,
but I am not having any success.
The command I want to execute as root is echo -n mem
Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to create a script so users can execute a certain command
as root without entering a password. I thought suid was the way to do
this, but I am not having any success.
The command I want to execute as root is echo -n mem /sys/power/status.
It looks like you have a USB 1.0 hub connected to USB 1.1 controller, if it's
true, your scanner probably does not like it because of insuficient power
and/or speed.
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Can you login to the share using smbclient ? smbclient //pc_name/share
To mount the share I just use mount -t smbfs -o
username=user,password=pass //robin/share /mnt/smb And my PC is
Windows XP SP2. One think that maybe causing a problem is the Windows
Firewall It will give you strange
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Petr Kocmid wrote:
It looks like you have a USB 1.0 hub connected to USB 1.1 controller, if it's
true, your scanner probably does not like it because of insuficient power
and/or speed.
I didn't connect any hub, the controller is in a PCI card and the
scanner is connected
Are you sure the Socket Server is actually listening on the port? The
app actually not running is the only real problem I can think of.
On 1/22/06, Mikhail Yarmish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some time ago, when I was making socket server with python I could
connect to it via another computer from
Dear list,
I haven't used my Gentoo for more than half a year or so (it was well
updated then) so the other night I made an update
emerge --update system
and all appeared to go well (lots of updates) but when I rebooted i got
* checking root filesystem ...
Failed to open the device
I've just emerged clamav klamav. Everything seems to have gone fine. I
did /etc/init.d/clamd restart. I went through the klamav setup, again fine.
But when I try to update the database it claims it can't connect to the
network. The network is up and running so its not the problem. I've
On 1/28/06, Fredrik Lundgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and all appeared to go well (lots of updates) but when I rebooted i got
* checking root filesystem ...
Failed to open the device '/dev/hda2': No such file or directory
* Filesystem couldn't be fixed: (Give root password for
On 1/27/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a USB PCI card which stopped working, meaning my scanner stopped
being detected. The problem remains also under KNOPPIX.
Can I assume the card is dead? (But it is recognized, sort of...)
Partial output of lspci -vvv (as root):
Thanks for the advice,
To the best of my knoledge Kernel 2.6.15.1 was downloaded and installed.
I haven't made any change with respect to devfs or udev. How should i
make the migration? And I haven't used etc-update. What should I start
with?
Again thanks from Fredrik
- Original Message
On Saturday 28 January 2006 09:15, a tiny voice compelled Fredrik Lundgren to
write:
Thanks for the advice,
To the best of my knoledge Kernel 2.6.15.1 was downloaded and installed.
I haven't made any change with respect to devfs or udev. How should i
make the migration? And I haven't used
Sorry for my misstake,
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uname -a
Linux(none) 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 #8 Thu Feb 17 13:15:44 CET 2005 i686
Intel(R) Pentium(R)
M processor 1.70 Ghz Centurion Intel GNU/Linux
etc-update
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/tmp/1162': Read only file system
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That must be my old Kernel which worked
Where does uname find kernel version? For my last 2 new kernels, uname -a
returns some off the wall kernel version. It seems to be picking up extra
info from God know where.
$ uname -a
Linux MRK 2.6.15-gentoo-r12.6.14-r-4_new #1 Fri Jan 27 12:38:49 EST 2006 i686
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Abhay Kedia wrote:
On Saturday 28 January 2006 02:55, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
the /etc/adjtime file. Throw it away, as it might be the
adjusting feature that thinks your clock is drifting a full
hour per hour (that is: ticks away two hours in one).
That was it!!! That was the file
On 1/28/06, Fredrik Lundgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry for my misstake,
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uname -a
Linux(none) 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 #8 Thu Feb 17 13:15:44 CET 2005 i686
Intel(R) Pentium(R)
M processor 1.70 Ghz Centurion Intel GNU/Linux
etc-update
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/tmp/1162': Read
On 1/28/06, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where does uname find kernel version? For my last 2 new kernels, uname -a
returns some off the wall kernel version. It seems to be picking up extra
info from God know where.
It comes from the version embedded in the kernel, returned via the
On 28 January 2006 16:15, Fredrik Lundgren wrote:
Thanks for the advice,
To the best of my knoledge Kernel 2.6.15.1 was downloaded and installed.
I haven't made any change with respect to devfs or udev. How should i
make the migration? And I haven't used etc-update. What should I start
with?
On Saturday 28 January 2006 20:38, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
See man hwclock, the section on The Adjust Function.
Thanks for the explanation and the tip. It certainly makes sense now :-)
Also, should I enable RTC in my kernel? I disabled it recently when I was
trying to get to the root of this
On Saturday 28 January 2006 10:31, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to
write:
On 1/28/06, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where does uname find kernel version? For my last 2 new kernels, uname -a
returns some off the wall kernel version. It seems to be picking up extra
info from
Thanks again,
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mount / -o remount, noatime,rw
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gave no protests
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etc-update
---
Worked this time and I updated all
and moved to my home directory and were able to change a file there
looked at /etc/conf.d/rc but made no chages
rebooted and ended up at the same place as before
*
There is a decent Gentoo Wiki article on configuring Clamav. Take a
look, that what I used for a guideline. Unfortunately the wiki is
down now so I can't give you a link. Just do a search when it comes
back online.
Robin
On 1/28/06, Matthew R. Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just emerged
Hi,
My problem is with flphoto and fluxbox, which doesnt have text in menus, so I
decided it would be nice to add us_gb locales
my make.conf has:
mar martins # cat /etc/make.conf | grep LINGUAS
LINGUAS=lv en
and locales.build now has:
en_US
en_US/ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8
en_GB
* Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [27/01/06 10:18]:
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 06:13:24AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote
+ and * , but only if you USE=vim-with-x.
Did that, and it doesn't seem to help. Here's my status...
[m3000][root][~] emerge --pretend --verbose vim
These are the
Problem solved! i compiled all the required drivers as modules and
then ran alsaconf, now my sound is finally working.
Thanks to you all
Rafa
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emerge strace fails with the following errors:
(updating a couple of packages since I first got these errors was successful)
resource.c:478: error: `Q_SETUSE' undeclared here (not in a function)
resource.c:478: error: initializer element is not constant
resource.c:478: error: (near initialization
What I don't understand is why doesn't it just do this:
emerge app-admin/gnome-system-tools app-editors/gedit app-text/evince
gnome-base/control-center gnome-base/gdm
because there are slotted packages - and revdep-rebuild would have to
take the newest version within the same slot. That is a
Very simple, just needed to add my user to the clamav group. Problem
sorted :-)
Matt
On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:58, Robin wrote:
There is a decent Gentoo Wiki article on configuring Clamav. Take a
look, that what I used for a guideline. Unfortunately the wiki is
down now so I can't
I haven't seen any new posts in 3 and a half hours. That must be a new record.
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On Saturday 28 January 2006 12:52 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote:
I haven't seen any new posts in 3 and a half hours. That must be a new
record. --
Regards, Ernie
post, post, post, ... :)
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Ernie Schroder wrote:
I haven't seen any new posts in 3 and a half hours. That must be a new record.
Oh yeah? I guess this is a good time to post my problem then and break
that (other than this message).
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I am having problems with dhcp on my wireless interface. Which is
confusing, it worked fine before. It just times out. If I assign
everything manually, there are no issues.
Some ask if it's because association with the AP is taking too long, but
I know it is not that, because I am manually
fire-eyes wrote:
I am having problems with dhcp on my wireless interface. Which is
confusing, it worked fine before. It just times out. If I assign
everything manually, there are no issues.
Some ask if it's because association with the AP is taking too long, but
I know it is not that,
Hey again!Im having issues.I saw on the gentoo forums that kdelibs-3.5.1 isn't on the servers yet, but I cant seem to get it to go down to 3.5.0. In order for me to get 3.5 anything I needed to unmask all of the packages
im building in package.keywords. So I get:#USE=-arts alsa emerge -p kicker
Just trashed the mobo on my gentoo machine and reinstalled on a
different machine entirely.
(sendmail-8.13.4)
I'm setting up sendmail... something I've done many times but each
time it has been a right pain in the butt. No exception this time...
I'm not running a mailserver, just a stand alone
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