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 this..

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

olbox.com fetchmail: Query status=3 (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 Lin

Re: Free Internet... ?

s/FreeWWW works for me -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 Leader) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

fstab stuff - rather stupid question, I know!

ar 6 20:34 lost+found/ drw-rw-rw-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:/

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 particul

possible to extract .cab files under linux?

machine I 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

Re: localtime/universal time

little things like that? :-) A "man tzconfig" thanks lots, randy :) -- addiction http://thunder.prohosting.com/~delusion/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Software is like sex; it's better when it's free"

localtime/universal time

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

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. > Sugg

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... D

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

er. I s'pose I'll write the developer and ask him 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

Re: Last potato linuxlogo

AD the swirl to begin with. Does anyone know? 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

o, the password and what it is you are > asking PPP to do. > > Oli I've been having the same problem since I did an apt-get dist-upgrade a few days ago. Anyone else? -addi -- addiction, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thunder.prohosting.com/~delusion/ Powered by Debian GNU/Linu

Re: silly sendmail question

gt;have the old sendmail installed (which is probably a bad security >idea)? > >Rob > >-- >With listening comes wisdom, with speaking repentance. > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > I can't believe what I got starte

Re: bash prompts question

s and mini-howtos in various formats. hope this helps. - -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- Ve

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