Re: How to catch process that removes files?

2007-01-30 Thread WireSpot
On 1/28/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know you've said this before, but is it the same files? or the same directory? if it is, in that you can narrow down the scope somewhat, maybe a simple chown root:root, chmod 000 on the appropriate part of the file system will get you

Re: How to catch process that removes files?

2007-01-28 Thread WireSpot
I don't mean periodically, more like "random but often". Sometimes several times a day, sometimes not at all. The server is on an intranet, in a mainly Windows network, and cannot be accessed from the Internet. It holds little interest to anybody apart from myself. It simply doesn't hold any usef

How to catch process that removes files?

2007-01-22 Thread WireSpot
Can anyone recommend a piece of software that will watch a file or a directory and tell me what processes mess with the files in there? In particular, I'd like it to react when a file is removed. I tried dnotify but it only tells me that it happened, after it happened, not who did it. I need thi

Re: X broken after upgrade on unstable

2006-04-18 Thread WireSpot
On 4/17/06, Jan Schledermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should try to read the hundreds of posts, in this news > group, covering this particular topic, over the past 2-3 days! > Solutions and explanations havew been given to most of the > problems arising from the sid/dist-upgrade problems pe

X broken after upgrade on unstable

2006-04-17 Thread WireSpot
I'm running unstable. I've done an apt-get update and an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday and didn't restart the computer until today. When I was hit by this problem (I start with `startx` from console): (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module "pcida

Re: Font corruption in GTK2 apps

2006-01-03 Thread WireSpot
On 1/3/06, WireSpot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) GTKv1/Motif/Athena apps which use TrueType fonts without > anti-aliasing, produce disgusting-looking results: > http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=truetypefontsdebian1xr.png I managed to fix this by replacing /usr/X11R6/li

Re: Font corruption in GTK2 apps

2006-01-03 Thread WireSpot
I'm starting to believe it has to do with Freetype, or whatever the new xorg packages use to make use of freetype fonts. Why: 1) Other types of fonts (such as pcf, bdf ie. Fixed) are not affected. 2) GTKv1/Motif/Athena apps which use TrueType fonts without anti-aliasing, produce disgusting-lookin

Font corruption in GTK2 apps

2006-01-01 Thread WireSpot
You can see what I mean here: http://img500.imageshack.us/my.php?image=debianfontcorruption4vr.png I'm running unstable. It happens only in GTK2 apps (not GTK1, not Qt), with the notable exception of Firefox (1.5), although I was under the impression that one is also based on GTK2; however, neith

Re: Font corruption in GTK2 apps

2006-01-01 Thread WireSpot
On 1/1/06, WireSpot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It happens only in GTK2 apps (not GTK1, not Qt), with the notable > exception of Firefox (1.5), although I was under the impression that > one is also based on GTK2; however, neither pages nor menus/dialogs > are affected in Fir

Font corruption in GTK2 apps

2005-12-31 Thread WireSpot
You can see what I mean here: http://img500.imageshack.us/my.php?image=debianfontcorruption4vr.png I'm running unstable. It happens only in GTK2 apps (not GTK1, not Qt), with the notable exception of Firefox (1.5), although I was under the impression that one is also based on GTK2; however, neit