Re: [OT] change user when executing some script

2007-06-15 Thread Galevsky
2007/6/15, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Galevsky wrote: > Many thanks for your comment and piece of code ;) I would not want to have warned that the sky was falling without being able to direct people to an underground bunker where they would be safe. :-) Ya, but not

Re: [OT] change user when executing some script

2007-06-14 Thread Galevsky
Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Galevsky wrote: > When user3 will launch the script later, he will get the user1 > permissions thanks to the setguid flag on the script, and will be able Setuid scripts are a security hole! It is almost impossible to prevent anyone from becoming the

Re: [OT] change user when executing some script

2007-06-14 Thread Galevsky
with others (not the case here). Gal' 2007/6/14, Galevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thank you guys. Unfortunately, I cannot do that since I am not root and can neither add group nor modify any /etc/*. That is the reason why I was looking for a solution to change the user when executing the sc

Re: [OT] change user when executing some script

2007-06-14 Thread Galevsky
the file creation is done on behalf of users and not of script owner. So file deletion. cannot run. Gal' 2007/6/14, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Galevsky wrote: > > How can I make the /home/user1/testfile belong to user1, the owner of &g

[OT] change user when executing some script

2007-06-13 Thread Galevsky
Hi, it is not the first time that i am facing this kind of problem, but I never find out . I decided to ask for some help. Let's have 3 users: user1, user2 and user3 let's have a user1 script: /home/user1/script.sh Script is: #!/bin/bash if [ -f '/home/user1/testfile' ] then rm /home/use

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-04-20 Thread galevsky
Moreover, most of Windows users are running their home OS with the administration rights all day long, they used to download and install lots of non-opened freeware from the web. Well, they just do lots of important/dangerous/admin tasks that should be done normally with a lot of care. Linux le

Re: Migrate to XEN and LVM

2007-04-16 Thread galevsky
2007/4/16, Marco Mandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I have Debian Sarge running on a traditional partition. Now I am going to make a clean install of edge. Before doing this I wish to migrate to LVM an XEN. Is this realistic? It is. We can even say "recommended" :o) I was searching a lot but

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-04 Thread galevsky
2007/4/4, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:09:57AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote: > >4) Rolling releases > > > >The only other distribution that has rolling releases (Or, no releases > >at all) i

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-04 Thread galevsky
2007/4/4, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 2) Is there any Debian specific LVM Howtos where I can learn debianized LVM? 3) How does LVM handle software upgrades in Debian? For extra Debian specific stuff, I have no idea... I think there is nothing special. Google gave me http://deb.riseup.net/sto

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-04 Thread galevsky
Michael Pobega wrote: 4) Rolling releases The only other distribution that has rolling releases (Or, no releases at all) is Gentoo, but Gentoo didn't have a strong stance on free software or stability, and their developer base seems to be falling apart, so I decided not to go with Gentoo (Plus t

Re: [ML ISSUE] reply-to field ?

2007-04-02 Thread galevsky
2007/4/2, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Gal: Just ask google to implement the list-reply button, it would no harm to you or them. I will ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ML ISSUE] reply-to field ?

2007-04-01 Thread galevsky
2007/4/1, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In the case of needing access from multiple systems, you should use the usenet gateway and a newsreader. nntp://linux.debian.user or http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.

Re: [ML ISSUE] reply-to field ?

2007-03-31 Thread galevsky
2007/3/31, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Noobie stomps in, uses HTML mail (which you are *still* doing, and still breaking the Code Of Conduct) and tells us not to follow an internet standard, because no one else does it. That's not appreciated. Sorry for the previous html message, I thoug

Re: [ML ISSUE] reply-to field ?

2007-03-30 Thread galevsky
Okay guys, so, just to calm down, I never told you what to do. I just faced twice the problem of answering to the wrong addressee, and I saw that it happens sometimes to others. I listened to your proposal of using a MUA, then argued that it was not suiting my needs. (I don't think just about me

Re: [ML ISSUE] reply-to field ?

2007-03-30 Thread galevsky
IMAP is not interesting for me at work, and there is reply-to-all feature yet, so I am not sure the problem is coming from Google MUA, but from the reply-to field instead. I read the Celejar link (thanks for him to have brought it up) and tried to think that it was the reason why we don't have it

RE: [ML ISSUE] reply-to field ?

2007-03-30 Thread galevsky
I am forwarding previous answers and adding that I do not want to pop these mails since I suscribed lots of ML, not only debian ones, and it is more convenient for me to read&write from gmail than poping 3 times (work - home - laptop) thousands of mails. -- Forwarded message

[ML ISSUE] reply-to field ?

2007-03-30 Thread galevsky
Is it possible to know why the reply-to field is not set to debian-user@lists.debian.org for each mail coming from the ML ? I am quite sure you have discussed it before, but I am relatively new to this ML. When you used not to take care about replying -it is the case in lots of ml, e.g. gentoo'- i

Re: remove from list please

2007-03-25 Thread galevsky
To subscribe to or unsubscribe from a mailing list, please send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word `subscribe' or `unsubscribe' as Subject. *Please remember the -REQUEST part of the address.* 2007/3/25, les shartle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: please remove me from mailing list my email is [EM

Re: lvm and kernel 2.6.18

2007-03-23 Thread galevsky
It is what ? moscow:~# lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/linux_data/home VG Namelinux_data LV UUIDqilIbL-454w-mQMD-Z9nj-Jzi9-eOl0-nUy8Cw LV Write Accessread/write LV Status available # open 2 L

Re: get update

2007-03-22 Thread galevsky
/etc/apt/sources.list conf file exactly. You're right ;o) 2007/3/22, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > if you are quite sure to have a good /etc/apt/sources.conf file, try to > ping the server(s) before updating. But if it is a local problem, we need

Re: get update

2007-03-22 Thread galevsky
Hi, if you are quite sure to have a good /etc/apt/sources.conf file, try to ping the server(s) before updating. But if it is a local problem, we need more info before going ahead as Joe said. Gal' 2007/3/22, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Texas Go