Web Space Anyone?

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Dienstag, den 28.12.2004, 11:09 +0800 schrieb Chua Wen Kiat:
> Thank you for your quick review. Sorry for my ignorance.
i didnt feel ignored, thanks for the answer, i meant it when i wrote
that i really appreciate your effort, i can imagine how much work is
gone in there :)

> I am aware of visudo and crontab -e It requires users to know vi
> Not many new 2 Iinux user knows about that. I'll put a note there
> regarding this.
visudo uses the $EDITOR variable, use:
export EDITOR=gedit && sudo visudo
(or replace gedit with nano, the same goes for the crontab -e command)

> >why is there an advice to edit the grub menu.lst to
> >boot to single user mode ? ubuntu has already configured this in the
> >boot menu (without root PW)
> Do you mean recovery mode? But that will still prompt for password
> (main user). The advice to boot to single user mode is because if you
> forgot all password, then you may bypass it and then from root change
> the password. Correct me if i'm wrong.
you are ;) you are dropped to a rootshell without password, try it

> >links in /dev that are set up manually get deleted on next boot
> Now I know... I'll change it :)
thats a big effort...udev is a heavyweight....
at least for the palmtop stuff Margot wrote a guide i dropped to the
wiki, where you could pick up some info:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/PalmtopHowto 

> >apache2 doesnt set the php4 options in apache2.conf, they get set up
> >automatically by installing libapache2-mod-php4
> I'll double check...
jep
> >How to use Ubuntu Installation CD, to gain root user access" says in
> >point 3: follow the instructions on screen till "Partition disks"....
> so
> >do i continue with point 4 after i wiped out my disk with the
> >partitioner or before ?
> Very true... dangerous... Will put a note there
:)
> >...broken (misconfigured) systems eat a lot of time in irc
> support....
> Sorry for any trouble caused... 
...as long as the errors get corrected it is not a problem :)

...most of the time there are broken X configs caused by typos in the
enhanced nvidia setup people try...to give you another hint, if the file
was modified manually once, the automated tools (i.e. dpkg-reconfigure
xserver-xfree86 or xf86cfg) wont touch that file anymore (there is a md5
sum mechanism preventing that), so the user is doomed to always edit
manually....a hint to make backup copys of files before editing them
would be a nice enhancement.

> >(btw the apt update crontab entry will not work the described
> example)
> Just double check... you're right. it didn't work... Will look into
> it... any quick correction?
a quick one is to put both commands in a executable shellscript and run
that from cron...
-----------------
#!/bin/bash 
# 
/usr/bin/apt-get update 
/usr/bin/apt-get -y upgrade
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> Best Regards,
> Chua Wen Kiat
again, thanks for your answer :)

ciao
	oli

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