Re: Exploring the possibilities of cron

2000-08-23 Thread Brent Harding
ied? At 12:15 PM 8/23/00 -0700, you wrote: >On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:14:01AM -0500, Brent Harding wrote: > >> Doesn't he have to have access to /etc/shadow though? > >For what? If you provide sudo access to use the useradd or adduser >commands, the commands run *as r

Re: Exploring the possibilities of cron

2000-08-23 Thread Brent Harding
> >> deleting would be something tricky, wouldn't want him deleting what I >> create. > >What are you deleting here? I'm confused. If he got access to userdel, he could delete users he shouldn't delete, just like, if he wants mail on his domain, he could add and delete his own stuff only. I suppo

I've got me a sourceforge project for something I really don't think exists, but haven't much any coding experience

2000-08-22 Thread Brent Harding
I don't think there's much of anything for linux to do streaming audio, (I mean broadcast it, plenty to play it, freeamp, mpg123, etc). There's nothing that has the ability to have a playlist that fades from 1 song to another like winamp in windows could. I've heard of icec

Exploring the possibilities of cron

2000-08-22 Thread Brent Harding
How would cron do something such as, emailing a file once and awhile, make the file empty, and wait until the next run, but not mail anything if it's empty. I've never done much with emailing besides piping echo to mail, but it's limited to one line. Supposing every hour I want it to email me all

mail and domains

2000-08-21 Thread Brent Harding
Is there a good free email host that I can point mx of a domain to that will store mail until I come online to retrieve it? I suppose all mail forwarding to one pop account gets fishy with email lists and friends you want to give an address to on your domain. It seems that moderate

exim and multiple alias files

2000-08-21 Thread Brent Harding
Can exim handle multiple alias files? I tried switching to sendmail for this, but whatever I did playing with postfix to see what it was about before removing it, made everything halt up in mqueue under var/spool, I think. Mail wouldn't even go to local users, using exim fixed it,