<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.2.3"> </HEAD> <BODY> Dear Oliver, Thank you for your quick review. Sorry for my ignorance. 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. >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. >links in /dev that are set up manually get deleted on next boot Now I know... I'll change it :) >apache2 doesnt set the php4 options in apache2.conf, they get set up >automatically by installing libapache2-mod-php4 I'll double check... >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... >(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? Best Regards, Chua Wen Kiat On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 14:47 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> hi, Am Montag, den 27.12.2004, 12:37 +0800 schrieb Chua Wen Kiat: > Thanks for the input... The guide was not written for newbies but more > for users who had tried Linux before. I think the doc team is working > on a newbie guide. hmm, it says unofficial ubuntu starter guide in the title..... > Other than outdated links for applications (which i'm correcting > it...), most of the things there seems to work for me. I'm no expert, > but if you are kind enough to let me know what's the errors, I would > definitely correct it as i said in a mail before, i have some other stuff to do currently and had only time to look at a part of it, but lots of things in there scare me (and produce huge amounts of support on irc (i.e. ppl that have their nvidia running fine with the two apt commands needed and then start to fiddle around in their XF86Config-4 file (and break it with typos) because of the next points in the guide)). more scary is the ignoring of visudo, it would be nice if you could correct this very fast, the sudoers file itself has a huge warning in it not to edit it with a normal editor. another piont is, 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) and a typo in this file will stop the system from booting (especially if the user also followed the advice to disable the edit function for grub on boot as described in the guides security section) links in /dev that are set up manually get deleted on next boot (ubuntu uses udev, the guide should regard that), they are mentioned everywhere in the guide.... never edit a ~/.crontab file manually, thats what the crontab -e command is for (btw the apt update crontab entry will not work the described example) apache2 doesnt set the php4 options in apache2.conf, they get set up automatically by installing libapache2-mod-php4 in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/php4.conf, which is read by apache2 on startup. "How to install MYSQL Database Server is very confusing"... i need to give a root pw ? so i do need to enable the root user for a working mysql ? there a little advice that this is an mysql and not a system pw would be nice. in "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 ? (please put a HUGE warning there ....) i could go on here, but as i said i'm a bit busy currently.... i really appreciate the effort you put into this but it would be nice if you could have some contact to the doc team or devs for review. also splitting it up in a starter/advanced section would be great. ...broken (misconfigured) systems eat a lot of time in irc support.... ciao oli </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>