after usermod can not su to root

2009-04-11 Thread zhang zhengquan
Dear debian users, I used to use islanddancer as username to login to my sid laptop. and islanddancer is in sudoers file. today I changed it to zhengquan using sudo usermod -l zhengquan islanddancer I did nothing else. Now I can login using zhengquan but I was not able to su to root using the

Re: after usermod can not su to root

2009-04-11 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/11 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com: On 11 Apr 2009, at 18:58, zhang zhengquan zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com wrote: Dear debian users, I used to use islanddancer as username to login to my sid laptop. and islanddancer is in sudoers file. today I changed it to zhengquan using

[solved] Re: after usermod can not su to root

2009-04-11 Thread zhang zhengquan
pressing 'e' on the right GRUB entry, and adding 'single' to the end of the line. This boots up Debian as root. Thanks for the single user method, I did usermod -l islanddancer zhengquan in single user mode. and was able to su root again. Thank you so much, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: xterm font sizes choices?

2009-04-07 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/8 Rob Starling debian-u...@robstarling.org: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:48:39PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:18:04AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 16:58:50 -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: I think I have a pretty normal setting and I did

unable to boot, how to install the package that cause problem?

2009-04-05 Thread zhang zhengquan
Dear debian users, I have installed some boot splash related packages on my girlfriends laptop running sid, and it turned out that it is unable to boot after that, I have a system rescue cd that boots well in to another linux on the cdrom. I wonder if it is possible to uninstall the package

Re: unable to boot, how to install the package that cause problem?

2009-04-05 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/5 Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au: On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:53:36PM -0500, zhang zhengquan wrote: Dear debian users, Good afternoon I have installed some boot splash related packages on my girlfriends laptop running sid, and it turned out that it is unable to boot after

Re: how to purge unused softwares on servers

2009-04-04 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/4 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com: On Fri,03.Apr.09, 17:09:50, zhang zhengquan wrote: Dear debian users, I have now got several servers for different applications under debian, some are very old and previous admin have installed lots of packages on them. like Xorg... gnome

Re: apache log rotate

2009-04-04 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/4 michal krajcirovic konfere...@kraja.net: Hello, creating access.log from apache2. I want at the same time (namely, every minute) without restart / reload apache start either log into another file, or rename the existing log to another file and log to a file with the same name. Given

how to purge unused softwares on servers

2009-04-03 Thread zhang zhengquan
Dear debian users, I have now got several servers for different applications under debian, some are very old and previous admin have installed lots of packages on them. like Xorg... gnome... kde related. I really want to purge them and get some space. I would like to find out a way to make some

lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread zhang zhengquan
Hello, Debian community, I have got a 250G harddisk that I can use for a debian lenny installation. I have met with partition size problems before so this time I would use LVM. and since it will be a server so /var /srv etc will grow in size later on. at the same time I would like to have 50G left

Re: Re : lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/2 Eloillaf Mhamed m_eloil...@yahoo.fr: - Message d'origine De : zhang zhengquan zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com À : debian-user@lists.debian.org Envoyé le : Jeudi, 2 Avril 2009, 19h13mn 30s Objet : lvm and multiboot Hello, Debian community, I have got a 250G harddisk that I

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/2 Celejar cele...@gmail.com: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:18:36 -0500 zhang zhengquan zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/2 Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca: I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm partitions. Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/2 Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca: I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm partitions. Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM volume.  I always partition my root drives with a 100-200MB /boot partition and the rest as a single partition devoted to

installing debian on AMD opterons

2009-04-01 Thread zhang zhengquan
Hello, debian community, Tomorrow I will install lenny on a server with two dual core AMD opteron cpus. I would like any debian users to confirm that this is what I need to download, burn and install? http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-500-amd64-CD-1.iso and I vaguely

[solved] Re: installing debian on AMD opterons

2009-04-01 Thread zhang zhengquan
Thank you guys, deian rocks! Z 2009/4/1 Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net: On 2009-04-01 16:37, zhang zhengquan wrote: Hello, debian community, Tomorrow I will install lenny on a server with two dual core AMD opteron cpus. I would like any debian users to confirm that this is what I need

sudoer security problem on server

2009-03-28 Thread zhang zhengquan
Hi, there, I am exposed to a sudoer security problem on a server. the server is running debian etch and every so often users on it would ask me for sudoer permissions. I would simply add username ALL=(ALL) ALL to the /etc/sudoers file. But now I am worried, it is a developement server that devs

Re: parallel programming on debian

2009-01-31 Thread zhang zhengquan
Message From: ron.l.john...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: parallel programming on debian Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:08:15 -0600 On 01/30/2009 10:01 PM, zhang zhengquan wrote: Dear all debian users: I am taking a course on parallel programming and I wonder

Re: parallel programming on debian

2009-01-31 Thread zhang zhengquan
Thanks a lot. Now I know what I need to do now. 2009/1/31 Micha Feigin mi...@post.tau.ac.il: On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:44:58 -0600 zhang zhengquan zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, basically, I don't have access to IRIX machines and I wonder if there are counterparts or similar

parallel programming on debian

2009-01-30 Thread zhang zhengquan
Dear all debian users: I am taking a course on parallel programming and I wonder if anyone has encountered the same library problem, the code example the instructor provides has #include ulocks.h #include task.h and obviously the header files are not available in any packages for debian sid.

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-04 Thread zhang . zhengquan
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