Hi,
Some of the feedback on the Ubuntu bugs I raised related to Clive's
issue with the graphical login prompt, gdm, sometimes not starting have
suggested some Ubuntu installations don't have a group called root
defined. IOW, /etc/group doesn't contain a line similar to
root:x:0:
This
But I've finally got off my butt and written it.
Linux Security Camera is the name of the ftp directory I keep my linux
version of the Vision Master security webcam suite in.
The design is simple and it is easy to download and configure for use
with a Linux platform.
You WILL need to make sure
On Mon, Sep 06 at 01:53, jr wrote:
hi Ralph,
? ?$ ? ? awk -F: '$1 == root || $3 ~ /^0*$/ {print NR, $0}' /etc/group
? ?1 root:x:0:
just wondering why the last field's empty (and doesn't contain user 'root')?
man (5) group specifies: group_name:passwd:GID:user_list
It's a common
Bob, Ralph,
The fact that a user's primary GID may or may not be in the supplementary
group list is just one of those little pains you have to program around.
If you enjoyed man (5) group you may also like to try man (7) credentials.
interesting to see the differences between systems, man
Hi,
I got into a conversation today at work about the need to reboot Windows
machines after installing, uninstalling or updating software. My colleague
said that he couldn't see how it could be done after I had said that the newer
versions of Windows server do this. (A customer complained
On Monday 06 Sep 2010, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:02:23 +0100, Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk
wrote:
Can anyone point me at a 101 standard tutorial or reference page which
explains how running code gets overwritten in memory when Linux updates
packages?
I think
On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:27:44 +0100, Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk
wrote:
I can see how that can work for a desktop, because you will eventually
shut the machine down, but AIUI, Apache can be updated on a running
server without rebooting or restarting it and this has been a feature
1 root:x:0:clive,root
I thoughth normal users weren't allowed to be in the root group?
I thought they usually go in wheel or admin (ubuntu) but only root if
they need to access root's files that are setguid or chmod g+
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On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 17:24:42 +0100, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
That's as I understand it, but there is apparently a company out there
somewhere that can patch a running kernel for Enterprise customers.
Well, actually, anyone can do that for any customer, although I wouldn't
recommend it.
On Monday 06 September 2010, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 17:24:42 +0100, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said:
That's as I understand it, but there is apparently a company out there
somewhere that can patch a running kernel for Enterprise customers.
Well, actually, anyone can do that
On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 20:17 +0100, Andrew R Paterson wrote:
As for Windows - you must be joking!
So we'll be seeing Bill Gates doing stand-up then?
Simono
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How to
initial questions, if anyone on the list has experience using gcc as a
cross-compiler.
Yep - I use buildroot a lot.
What's multilib and how does it fit in with newlib (which I gather I need to
build for a different target)?
Multilib is a feature of gcc that lets you compile for multiple
. running code gets overwritten
Not Firefox... yet...
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hi Ralph,
ralph:x:1000:1000:Ralph Corderoy,,,:/home/ralph:/bin/bash
ralph:x:1000:
newgrp(1) will still let me change to group `ralph' even though
I'm not explicitly listed in /etc/group.
so what you're saying is that newgrp allows you to change group *to*
the group that you're in
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Ralph.
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Hi Tim,
I'm trying to get started on evaluating gcc for generating m68k code
for embedded targets. I'm using Debian 5.0 but can pull in more recent
gcc source if required. I've spent a few hours Googlin' around and
have some initial questions, if anyone on the list has experience
using gcc
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