Le 25/12/2011 23:28, Jon Elson a écrit :
Linux distros. Ctrl/Alt/F7 goes back to the Xwindows screen if it is
working.
or ctrl/alt/F8 sometimes, e.g. if for some reason *dm crashed and respawned.
Ctrl/Alt/backspace kills Xwindows.
not anymore on *buntu distros. If you want it, you need
On 12/24/2011 3:32 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
gene heskett wrote:
And sudo quits working, so you can't fix anything else.
You actually can, but you have to get down to hacker level. You can get
into
grub, show the default boot command, and add the option to go to single-user
boot
esc and the splash-screen goes away
alt+F6 for dmesg output
Am Sonntag, 25. Dezember 2011 schrieb Mark Wendt (Contractor):
On 12/24/2011 3:32 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
gene heskett wrote:
And sudo quits working, so you can't fix anything else.
You actually can, but you have to get down to
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 09:21:09 AM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did opine:
On 12/24/2011 3:32 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
gene heskett wrote:
And sudo quits working, so you can't fix anything else.
You actually can, but you have to get down to hacker level. You can
get into
grub, show
On 12/25/2011 9:35 AM, gene heskett wrote:
Anybody remember the Alt-somethingorother key combo to bring up the
running of the startup scripts rather than the Ubuntu splash screen
during boot? I thought I had it saved away somewhere but I'll be durned
if I can find it. That's helpful if you
Thanks!
Mark
On 12/25/2011 8:08 AM, Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
esc and the splash-screen goes away
alt+F6 for dmesg output
Am Sonntag, 25. Dezember 2011 schrieb Mark Wendt (Contractor):
On 12/24/2011 3:32 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
gene heskett wrote:
And sudo quits
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 11:51:20 AM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did opine:
On 12/25/2011 9:35 AM, gene heskett wrote:
Anybody remember the Alt-somethingorother key combo to bring up
the running of the startup scripts rather than the Ubuntu splash
screen during boot? I thought I had it
On 12/25/2011 11:51 AM, gene heskett wrote:
On Sunday, December 25, 2011 11:51:20 AM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did opine:
On 12/25/2011 9:35 AM, gene heskett wrote:
Anybody remember the Alt-somethingorother key combo to bring up
the running of the startup scripts rather than the
Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote:
Anybody remember the Alt-somethingorother key combo to bring up the
running of the startup scripts rather than the Ubuntu splash screen
during boot? I thought I had it saved away somewhere but I'll be durned
if I can find it. That's helpful if you
On 12/23/2011 2:47 PM, gene heskett wrote:
I sounded like a good idea, but:
[gene@coyote ~]$ ssh shop
gene@shop's password:
Linux shop 2.6.32-122-rtai #rtai SMP Tue Jul 27 12:44:07 CDT 2010 i686
GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Welcome to Ubuntu!
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
On 12/23/2011 6:18 PM, gene heskett wrote:
On Friday, December 23, 2011 06:11:28 PM Mark Cason did opine:
On 12/23/2011 01:47 PM, gene heskett wrote:
Last login: Thu Dec 22 09:38:52 2011 from coyote.coyote.den
gene@shop:~$ sudo useradd -u 500 gene
to modify a user, you must use
Le 23/12/2011 23:35, Mark Cason a écrit :
On 12/23/2011 01:47 PM, gene heskett wrote:
Last login: Thu Dec 22 09:38:52 2011 from coyote.coyote.den
gene@shop:~$ sudo useradd -u 500 gene
to modify a user, you must use usermod:
sudo usermod -u 500 gene
I haven't used usermod in a lng
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 09:00:31 AM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On 12/23/2011 2:47 PM, gene heskett wrote:
I sounded like a good idea, but:
[gene@coyote ~]$ ssh shop
gene@shop's password:
Linux shop 2.6.32-122-rtai #rtai SMP Tue Jul 27 12:44:07 CDT 2010 i686
GNU/Linux
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:05:57 -0500
gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote:
And sudo quits working, so you can't fix anything else.
Even if sudo, su and direct root login stop working, you can still fix it
by directly booting into a shell with init=/bin/bash rw
And if that also fails (because you
Le 24/12/2011 15:04, gene heskett a écrit :
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 09:00:31 AM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On 12/23/2011 2:47 PM, gene heskett wrote:
I sounded like a good idea, but:
[gene@coyote ~]$ ssh shop
gene@shop's password:
Linux shop 2.6.32-122-rtai #rtai SMP Tue
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:14:41 PM yann jautard did opine:
Le 24/12/2011 15:04, gene heskett a écrit :
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 09:00:31 AM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On 12/23/2011 2:47 PM, gene heskett wrote:
I sounded like a good idea, but:
[gene@coyote ~]$
On 12/24/2011 9:04 AM, gene heskett wrote:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 09:00:31 AM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On 12/23/2011 2:47 PM, gene heskett wrote:
I sounded like a good idea, but:
[gene@coyote ~]$ ssh shop
gene@shop's password:
Linux shop 2.6.32-122-rtai #rtai
On 12/24/2011 12:22 PM, gene heskett wrote:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:14:41 PM yann jautard did opine:
Le 24/12/2011 15:04, gene heskett a écrit :
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 09:00:31 AM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On 12/23/2011 2:47 PM, gene heskett
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:45:10 PM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On 12/24/2011 9:04 AM, gene heskett wrote:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 09:00:31 AM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On 12/23/2011 2:47 PM, gene heskett wrote:
I sounded like a good idea, but:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:55:49 PM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On 12/24/2011 9:05 AM, gene heskett wrote:
That has been done long ago Mark. The problem is that on pclos
(this box) gene is the first user, with a userid of 500. On
ubuntu, gene is also the first user 1000,
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:56:52 PM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On 12/24/2011 12:22 PM, gene heskett wrote:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:14:41 PM yann jautard did opine:
Le 24/12/2011 15:04, gene heskett a écrit :
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 09:00:31 AM Mark Wendt
On 12/24/2011 1:04 PM, gene heskett wrote:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:56:52 PM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On 12/24/2011 12:22 PM, gene heskett wrote:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:14:41 PM yann jautard did opine:
Le 24/12/2011 15:04, gene heskett a
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 01:18:41 PM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
[and a lengthy argument snipped]
I do. But that is so all encompassing on pclos, that all paths then
have to be cd'd to from the /root account. Even when using it in a
script, a cd to do something in a subdir
Le 24/12/2011 19:04, gene heskett a écrit :
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:56:52 PM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On 12/24/2011 12:22 PM, gene heskett wrote:
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:14:41 PM yann jautard did opine:
Le 24/12/2011 15:04, gene heskett a écrit :
On Saturday,
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 01:59:00 PM yann jautard did opine:
[overdue chomp]
I think here we are talking about another problem. The point is not to
use root account to make all your admin stuff (even if it may be a
better choice than sudo), but use it only the time needed to change
well, I just see something a lot simpler : when using the users-admin
GUI from gnome, you can change the UID...
Le 24/12/2011 19:56, yann jautard a écrit :
Le 24/12/2011 19:04, gene heskett a écrit :
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 12:56:52 PM Mark Wendt (Contractor) did
opine:
On
Le 24/12/2011 20:18, gene heskett a écrit :
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 01:59:00 PM yann jautard did opine:
[overdue chomp]
I think here we are talking about another problem. The point is not to
use root account to make all your admin stuff (even if it may be a
better choice than
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 02:50:57 PM yann jautard did opine:
well, I just see something a lot simpler : when using the users-admin
GUI from gnome, you can change the UID...
Who is using gnome? I'd pay that nagging nanny to stay in Peoria. :)
Cheers, Gene
--
There are four boxes to be
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 02:57:51 PM yann jautard did opine:
Le 24/12/2011 20:18, gene heskett a écrit :
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 01:59:00 PM yann jautard did opine:
[overdue chomp]
I think here we are talking about another problem. The point is
not to use root
gene heskett wrote:
And sudo quits working, so you can't fix anything else.
You actually can, but you have to get down to hacker level. You can get
into
grub, show the default boot command, and add the option to go to single-user
boot mode. When Linux comes up, you are the super-user,
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 03:38:50 PM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
And sudo quits working, so you can't fix anything else.
You actually can, but you have to get down to hacker level. You can get
into
grub, show the default boot command, and add the option to go to
On 12/23/2011 08:08 PM, gene heskett wrote:
On Friday, December 23, 2011 10:18:29 PM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
That has been done long ago Mark. The problem is that on pclos (this
box) gene is the first user, with a userid of 500. On ubuntu, gene
is also the first user 1000,
On Saturday, December 24, 2011 04:41:00 PM Rafael Skodlar did opine:
On 12/23/2011 08:08 PM, gene heskett wrote:
On Friday, December 23, 2011 10:18:29 PM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
That has been done long ago Mark. The problem is that on pclos
(this box) gene is the first
Le 22/12/2011 16:33, gene heskett a écrit :
Greetings all;
First, I guess we start a round of wishing everybody a merry Christmas.
Second, the diffs in user number basing between normal systems with the
first user at 500, and *buntu system with a first user at 1000 is killing
me since all
On Friday, December 23, 2011 02:44:33 PM yann jautard did opine:
Le 22/12/2011 16:33, gene heskett a écrit :
Greetings all;
First, I guess we start a round of wishing everybody a merry
Christmas.
Second, the diffs in user number basing between normal systems with
the first user
On 12/23/2011 01:47 PM, gene heskett wrote:
Last login: Thu Dec 22 09:38:52 2011 from coyote.coyote.den
gene@shop:~$ sudo useradd -u 500 gene
to modify a user, you must use usermod:
sudo usermod -u 500 gene
I haven't used usermod in a lng time, so I don't know if you need to
change user,
On Friday, December 23, 2011 06:11:28 PM Mark Cason did opine:
On 12/23/2011 01:47 PM, gene heskett wrote:
Last login: Thu Dec 22 09:38:52 2011 from coyote.coyote.den
gene@shop:~$ sudo useradd -u 500 gene
to modify a user, you must use usermod:
sudo usermod -u 500 gene
I haven't
gene heskett wrote:
That has been done long ago Mark. The problem is that on pclos (this box)
gene is the first user, with a userid of 500. On ubuntu, gene is also the
first user 1000, so when user 500 tries to copy a file to /home/user=1000
on ubuntu, its 100% no permissions.
Now if
On 12/23/2011 05:18 PM, gene heskett wrote:
On Friday, December 23, 2011 06:11:28 PM Mark Cason did opine:
On 12/23/2011 01:47 PM, gene heskett wrote:
Last login: Thu Dec 22 09:38:52 2011 from coyote.coyote.den
gene@shop:~$ sudo useradd -u 500 gene
to modify a user, you must use usermod:
On Friday, December 23, 2011 10:18:29 PM Jon Elson did opine:
gene heskett wrote:
That has been done long ago Mark. The problem is that on pclos (this
box) gene is the first user, with a userid of 500. On ubuntu, gene
is also the first user 1000, so when user 500 tries to copy a file to
Greetings all;
First, I guess we start a round of wishing everybody a merry Christmas.
Second, the diffs in user number basing between normal systems with the
first user at 500, and *buntu system with a first user at 1000 is killing
me since all the system utils that one would use for copying
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