Web Space Anyone?

[Chua Wen Kiat]

Dear Oliver,

Thank you for your inputs...

>visudo uses the $EDITOR variable, use:
>export EDITOR=gedit && sudo visudo
>(or replace gedit with nano, the same goes for the crontab -e command)
Learn something new today :) Thanks

I'll work on the updates soon... and correct the known problems....
Thanks again

Best Regards,
Chua Wen Kiat


On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 05:12 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:

> 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
> -----------------
> 
> > Best Regards,
> > Chua Wen Kiat
> again, thanks for your answer :)
> 
> ciao
> 	oli
> 
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