protecting MySQL password on multi-user system

2006-04-26 Thread Eric P
I'm on a multi-user Linux system running PHP and MySQL. I have user permissions only. No root perms. Whenever I do an SQL query, I include (via PHP) a file (of which I'm the owner) which exists just under the web root which contains my MySQL username and password. I have to keep this file's

Re: mozilla mplayer plugin does not play video

2006-04-26 Thread Eric P
Matthias Julius wrote: H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I click on a video link, mozilla mplayer plugin shows that it is downloading the file but doesn't really play anything. After the download is complete, it tells as much and then it either doesn't do anything or just prints Stopped

DVD burner optimization (or how to avoid crappy burns)

2006-01-25 Thread Eric P
, here's the command I run to burn a disc: growisofs -speed=1 -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video DVD/ Thanks for reading! Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reiser FS hosed?

2006-01-05 Thread Eric P
this is (ahem) bad, huh? Am I screwed? Or is there any way to recover some of the files? Thanks for reading! Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem with media mounting and huge log files

2006-01-02 Thread Eric P
Debian testing/IceWM. Any idea what's going on here? I've used this CD-R for over a year now and haven't had any problems. Let me know if I can provide any further info. Thanks, Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Gdesklets and shutdown

2005-12-31 Thread Eric P
I'm running IceWM and Gdesklets. When I log-out of IceWM, Gdesklets alerts me if I want to delete the current running desklets before it'll let me log out. I.e., what this'll do is remove any running desklets so that they won't appear next time I log in - not what I want to happen. Supposedly, I

Flash w/o video on 1.5

2005-12-03 Thread Eric P
Hi all, (Running Etch) I started using Firefox 1.5 from RC1 through to the stable release. But the Flash plugin hasn't worked properly in any of these releases. There is no video yet the audio works. I just see a brief flash where the visual element is supposed to be, and I'll hear audio

Re: Flash w/o video on Firefox 1.5

2005-12-03 Thread Eric P
John L Fjellstad wrote: Eric P [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I started using Firefox 1.5 from RC1 through to the stable release. But the Flash plugin hasn't worked properly in any of these releases. There is no video yet the audio works. I just see a brief flash where the visual element

Re: Starting portmap daemon problem...

2005-11-22 Thread Eric P
Larry Gonzalez wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Eric P wrote: I'm running Etch. I noticed recently that the boot process gets stuck on Starting portmap daemon: portmap. After a few minutes, I hit ctrl-C and it continues booting. Any ideas? yes... your loopback interface needs

Starting portmap daemon problem...

2005-11-20 Thread Eric P
I'm running Etch. I noticed recently that the boot process gets stuck on Starting portmap daemon: portmap. After a few minutes, I hit ctrl-C and it continues booting. Any ideas? Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Vim question

2005-10-23 Thread Eric P
'*/' -- That's cool. I wonder though if there's a way to do this in Vim. We work on Windows boxen at work (at gun point), and I don't have Perl installed. Thanks, Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Vim question

2005-10-22 Thread Eric P
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: I just started learning python (i think it is great). Now i have the following problem: How can i comment 10 lines of code in a shot? That is, how can i add a # at the begenning of a range of lines? just to be more clear, i want to rasform a=['a','b','c'] for i in

Re: Vim question

2005-10-22 Thread Eric P
If you wanted to instead replace line 1 line 2 line 3 with /* line 1 line 2 line 3 */ I'm not sure how you'd do it. Perhaps others do. Actually, I would like to know how to do this in VIM. Any takers? Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

NVidia with Xorg (testing)

2005-10-22 Thread Eric P
). Thanks for reading, Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gimp and transparency in GIF images

2005-10-22 Thread Eric P
[KS] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to create a gif image with a drop shadow which is 80% opaque with Gimp 2.2.8. When saving the image as gif it asks to convert it to an indexed image. The resulting image (gif) does not give me the transparency that a png gives. I noticed that earlier there was a

Re: how to start php SOLVED

2005-10-03 Thread Eric P
give you a list of all modules that can be enabled. Good stuff. Thanks everyone who took the time to respond and for being patient with this Deb newb! Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how to start php

2005-10-02 Thread Eric P
php5-common php5-mysql So how exactly does one start up the php service and have it start up on boot? Thanks for reading... Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to start php

2005-10-02 Thread Eric P
Clive Menzies wrote: On (02/10/05 01:48), Eric P wrote: To: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Eric P [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 01:48:47 -0500 Subject: how to start php Hi all, Php4 was up and running. Then I tried out dotdeb's php5. Decided to switch back to php4, but now

Re: how to start php

2005-10-02 Thread Eric P
Clive Menzies wrote: On (02/10/05 14:56), Eric P wrote: Clive Menzies wrote: On (02/10/05 01:48), Eric P wrote: Hi all, Php4 was up and running. Then I tried out dotdeb's php5. Decided to switch back to php4, but now php4 doesn't start when I restart Apache or even reboot. I reinstalled

Re: Spumux does not work

2005-09-27 Thread Eric P
build for the time being. Thanks, Eric P. -Original Message- From: Eric P [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sep 26, 2005 3:43 AM To: Ted Flamouropoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Spumux does not work Eric P wrote: Ted Flamouropoulos wrote: All, I

Re: Gnome's Window Selector via keyboard

2005-09-26 Thread Eric P
Bill Marcum wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:22:08AM -0500, Eric P wrote: Anyone know a way access Gnome's Window Selector via the keyboard? Alt-tab? Nope. Maybe 'Window List' is the correct English for it? It's the applet that, when clicked, displays a drop down listing all running

Re: Gnome's Window Selector via keyboard

2005-09-26 Thread Eric P
Eric P wrote: Bill Marcum wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 12:22:08AM -0500, Eric P wrote: Anyone know a way access Gnome's Window Selector via the keyboard? Alt-tab? Nope. Maybe 'Window List' is the correct English for it? It's the applet that, when clicked, displays a drop down

Re: Spumux does not work

2005-09-25 Thread Eric P
to get the stable build installed again, but to no avail. I tried: apt-get -t stable install dvdauthor (and it installed 0.6.11-2, not 0.6.11.1) And this: apt-get install dvdauthor=0.6.11-1 ... E: Version '0.6.11-1' for 'dvdauthor' was not found I'm at a loss. Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Gnumeric doesn't work in Testing (for me)...

2005-09-25 Thread Eric P
for reading. Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnumeric doesn't work in Testing (for me)...

2005-09-25 Thread Eric P
James Vahn wrote: Eric P wrote: I'm running testing, recently upgraded all packages to be upgraded (Gnome 2.10 and Xorg were the biggies), and Gnumeric no longer starts anymore. Here's what I get: $ gnumeric gnumeric: symbol lookup error: gnumeric: undefined symbol: cell_formats Anyone else

Re: Spumux does not work

2005-09-25 Thread Eric P
Eric P wrote: Ted Flamouropoulos wrote: All, I have a recent problem with spumux in trying to multiplex subtiltes into a movie file. Apparently spumux does not recognize the subtitle images in the directory. I can open and look at the subtitles using a viewer, so the images

Re: Gnumeric doesn't work in Testing (for me)...

2005-09-25 Thread Eric P
Eric P wrote: James Vahn wrote: Eric P wrote: I'm running testing, recently upgraded all packages to be upgraded (Gnome 2.10 and Xorg were the biggies), and Gnumeric no longer starts anymore. Here's what I get: $ gnumeric gnumeric: symbol lookup error: gnumeric: undefined symbol

Re: apt-get errors out religiously while processing 'at' command

2005-09-25 Thread Eric P
Maurits van Rees wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 07:39:23PM -0500, Eric P wrote: Hmm... maybe I just fixed it. I uninstalled the 'at' package, and apt-get no longer complains. You may want to try reinstalling it now and see if things continue to work normally. On my sarge system

Gnome's Window Selector via keyboard

2005-09-25 Thread Eric P
Anyone know a way access Gnome's Window Selector via the keyboard? Thanks, Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get errors out religiously while processing 'at' command

2005-09-22 Thread Eric P
Eric P wrote: I'm running etch, and I recently ran an upgrade which installed many packages including Gnome 2.10 and Xorg. During the middle of the upgrade, apt-get kept erroring out with the following (xbill just as an example): Unpacking xbill (from .../archives/xbill_2.1-4_i386.deb

Re: Newb Hoses Install - Story at 11

2005-09-21 Thread Eric P
Eric P wrote: An upgrade (under Etch) doesn't want to finish. I clicked 'Mark All Upgrades' in Synaptic, but it keeps failing on udev. It says: udev requires a kernel = 2.6.12, upgrade aborted. However, the newest kernel I show in Synaptic is only 2.6.8. Look for linux-image-* instead

apt-get errors out religiously while processing 'at' command

2005-09-21 Thread Eric P
, thanks for reading, and hopefully someone has a clue for this issue. Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Newb Hoses Install - Story at 11

2005-09-20 Thread Eric P
), so my virtual terminal now says GNU/Linux testing/unstable'. Anyway, any tips would be much obliged. I don't mind doing a fresh install if that's what is needed. Thanks for reading... Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Newb Hoses Install - Story at 11

2005-09-20 Thread Eric P
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automount down

2005-09-11 Thread Eric P
I noticed a few days ago that USB memory sticks and CDs/DVDs no longer automount. I also noticed a bajillion stalled(?) processes like the following: 23851 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh /sbin/hotplug usb 23852 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh /sbin/hotplug usb 23855 ?S 0:00 /bin/sh

Re: Qemu ( was vmware )

2005-07-30 Thread Eric P
David Baron wrote: Installed from Sid (got rid of my previous local compiled installation). Now I need to figure out how to use it. I want to try to run Win98, etc. in it. what is installed on what mounts? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Numlock at startup?

2005-07-24 Thread Eric P
I learned how to set this up in the latest (4th) issue of www.tuxmagazine.com (it's free). The section is called QA w/Mango. Check pg. 15. Eric P Josh wrote: On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:11:29 -0700 (PDT) Edward Dunagin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my bios has a setting for the numlock key

ColdFusion MX (6.1) and MySQL

2005-07-21 Thread Eric P
, and it works just fine. Of course, I'd like to get this running in Debian if possible. Note: before anyone brings up the notion of using another (better?) server scripting environment, I need to install CF for work reasons. Thanks for reading all of this... Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: mp4/Go Open TV show

2005-07-11 Thread Eric P
Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 01:40:31AM -0500, Eric P wrote: I've downloaded some mp4s of the Go Open Source (www.go-opensource.org) online TV show. Xine (I think the ftp.nerim.net repository build) plays the video, but there's no audio. Try vlc

mp4/Go Open TV show

2005-07-10 Thread Eric P
I've downloaded some mp4s of the Go Open Source (www.go-opensource.org) online TV show. Xine (I think the ftp.nerim.net repository build) plays the video, but there's no audio. Any ideas? Thanks for reading, Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Coldfusion MX

2005-06-28 Thread Eric P
for reading! Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Starting Appletalk services...

2005-06-26 Thread Eric P
Starting Appletalk services (this may take a while) Yes, it sure does. What services are these anyway? It seems to add 10-15 seconds to boot time on my 1.5 GHz box. Thanks... Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Japanese input

2005-06-26 Thread Eric P
suggestions? Thanks for reading! Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Starting Appletalk services...

2005-06-26 Thread Eric P
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Eric P [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Starting Appletalk services (this may take a while) Yes, it sure does. What services are these anyway? It seems to add 10-15 seconds to boot time on my 1.5 GHz box. This is the netatalk service. Which allows your system

Re: Misc. Newb Help

2005-06-21 Thread Eric P
Dominik Epple wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:05:11AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Tuesday 21 June 2005 06:19, Eric P wrote: Patrick Rutkowski wrote: On Monday 20 June 2005 10:14 pm, Eric P wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: 2. I have a .bash_profile in my user directly, but it's not being

Re: ColdFusion MX (was Misc. Newb Help)

2005-06-21 Thread Eric P
you give me any install tips? I've had success w/this installer on SuSE 8.0/9.2 Pro in the past... I didn't see anything resembling 'compat-libstdc' for Debian. I even did a search on www1.apt-get.org. Thanks for any pointers, Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Misc. Newb Help

2005-06-20 Thread Eric P
Greg Folkert wrote: 2. I have a .bash_profile in my user directly, but it's not being sourced ever. Any idea why? I tried .profile as well w/o any luck. Okay, are you talking for your *X* environment or CLI or both? Both. Eric P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Misc. Newb Help

2005-06-20 Thread Eric P
Patrick Rutkowski wrote: On Monday 20 June 2005 10:14 pm, Eric P wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: 2. I have a .bash_profile in my user directly, but it's not being sourced ever. Any idea why? I tried .profile as well w/o any luck. Okay, are you talking for your *X* environment or CLI or both

Re: Misc. Newb Help

2005-06-17 Thread Eric P
Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 23:22 -0500, Eric P wrote: 1. Nvidia driver - is there a Debian way to approach this? Or just run the Nvidia installer? apt-get install module-assistant ; m-a a-i nvidia That worked (once I installed the kernel-header file). The nvidia driver

Re: Misc. Newb Help

2005-06-17 Thread Eric P
Eric P wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 23:22 -0500, Eric P wrote: 1. Nvidia driver - is there a Debian way to approach this? Or just run the Nvidia installer? apt-get install module-assistant ; m-a a-i nvidia That worked (once I installed the kernel-header file

Misc. Newb Help

2005-06-16 Thread Eric P
glad to have finally jumped the fence! Eric P. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-15 Thread Eric P
Craig Russell wrote: Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: Help me please! I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge and it is a DISASTER. HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! ! (Reading database ... 70119 files and directories currently installed.) Removing

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-13 Thread Eric P
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have just finished installing sarge (am a first-time debian user, very impressed), and now am chosing a window manager. I have fond memories of using a little-known WM called VTWM on SunOS, but that was almost 10 years ago now. I'm guessing