su in X/menus - how?

Greetings, all. This may be a newbie-ish question, but here goes. How can I make menu entries for programs that need to be run as root? I've tried all kinds of things, and the best thing I've come up with (which sucks, really) is opening an xterm and doing su -c. Of course I'd rather not do

aol art images on linux

Is there any such thing as a Linux viewer/converter that supports AOL's .ART image format? I've tried searching everywhere with no luck so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA, addi

fetchmail error

(AUTHFAIL) TIA, addi -- addiction http://thunder.prohosting.com/~delusion/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Well, let's just say, 'if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you don't want Linux'. (Bruce Perens, Debian's Fearless

Re: Free Internet... ?

-- addiction http://thunder.prohosting.com/~delusion/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Well, let's just say, 'if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you don't want Linux'. (Bruce Perens, Debian's Fearless Leader) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

fstab stuff - rather stupid question, I know!

-3 root audio4.0k Mar 6 20:58 miscmp3/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mp3 cd a bash: cd: a: Permission denied (Yes, Haunted is a member of the audio group.) TIA, addi -- addiction http://thunder.prohosting.com/~delusion

possible to extract .cab files under linux?

really have no way of doing this (that I can think of). Any help would be greatly appreciated.. either a recommendation for a program which runs under Linux to extract such files, or any other logical method I might use to accomplish this task. Thanks in advance, addi -- addiction http

Re: possible to extract .cab files under linux?

In our last episode, on Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 08:10:41PM +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 19:27:04 -0500, addiction wrote: All I want to do is extract some truetype fonts from various .cabs I have on old cd-roms (I need them for something in particular). Try this URL

Re: localtime/universal time

that? :-) A man tzconfig thanks lots, randy :) -- addiction http://thunder.prohosting.com/~delusion/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Software is like sex; it's better when it's free (Linus Torvalds) If you continue running

localtime/universal time

this, but it does not. any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA, addiction

problem with mutt/slang1 in unstable?

Hi all... Don't know if this has been addressed already or not, but if so I missed it. For about the last week I've been unable to update mutt in unstable. This is what apt says: (03:21pm) root: ~ $ apt-get install mutt Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree...

Re: updatedb error

Quoteth Patrick on Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 10:16:48PM +: Anyone come across this on potato? enterprise:/home/patrick# updatedb /usr/bin/updatedb: frcode: command not found updatedb: new database would be empty enterprise:/home/patrick# yep... today, as a matter of fact. Suggestions

Re: Last potato linuxlogo

about it. -- addiction [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thunder.prohosting.com/~delusion/ I didn't want to hurt you, but you're pretty when you cry -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBN+O+l65Ltvodctv2EQLo/ACfUeF+0x8KJN6e47I1VsY9

Re: Last potato linuxlogo [again]

my mistake, the swirl is in the source package of version 3.0.1-1.. Now to just find that somewhere, which I'm having a hard time doing.

Re: Last potato linuxlogo

? Or is the swirl still there but simply not the default anymore? -- addiction [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thunder.prohosting.com/~delusion/ I didn't want to hurt you, but you're pretty when you cry --

Re: PAP Authentication Failed

dist-upgrade a few days ago. Anyone else? -addi -- addiction, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thunder.prohosting.com/~delusion/ Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (potato) 2.3.6 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: silly sendmail question

, with speaking repentance. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I can't believe what I got started here heh... I gave up on it. I have no idea what this program, mxmail, will report me as and I don't care. grin -addi -- addiction: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: bash prompts question

. - -addi - -- addiction [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thunder.prohosting.com/~delusion/ ICQ: 2019597 I didn't want to hurt you, but you're pretty when you cry... - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA

Re: netbase from potato not configuring

ahh i remembered! the problem was that something which installed PRIOR to netbase had wiped out my hostname. that is, my hostname was just a blank line and as you know that can play some funny tricks on things. once i re-added my hostname everything installed properly. cheers again, addi