Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-28 Thread Stefan Padberg
Am Montag, 27. September 2004 21:24 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > Am Montag 27 September 2004 21:02 schrieb Thomas Templin: > > At least the update worked fine here, but due to lack of nvidia cards I > > cant examine your specific problem. > > I'd luv to test it - can you send me the deb-file? Or

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-28 Thread C. Gatzemeier
Am Saturday 25 September 2004 19:48 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > For beginners, out of the set of available X-less text editors, mcedit is > the one to prefer. It's the one that goes witch midnight commander (mc) > which must be apt-get installed as it is not installed by default. If asked sofa

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-27 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Montag 27 September 2004 21:02 schrieb Thomas Templin: > At least the update worked fine here, but due to lack of nvidia cards I > cant examine your specific problem. I'd luv to test it - can you send me the deb-file? Or upload the iso image of the cd somewhere :) regrads ralf

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-27 Thread Thomas Templin
On Monday 27 September 2004 20:33, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote: > Am Dienstag 21 September 2004 20:03 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > > Q: Can't I increase my vertical sync over 60 Hz using "vesa" as driver? > > A: No, you need an appropriate driver. Matrox cards should work without > > trouble. > > I

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-27 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Dienstag 21 September 2004 20:03 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > Q: Can't I increase my vertical sync over 60 Hz using "vesa" as driver? > A: No, you need an appropriate driver. Matrox cards should work without > trouble. I kept trying to stop our teachers' workstation's screen flickering -- in

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-27 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Dienstag 21 September 2004 20:03 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > To be continued Hi, I agree that this collection should wander to the plone FAQ quite soon. The reason why I keep posting FAQ-style hints on the list, is manyfold: - I lack the time to "flesh them out" and ask you to do so - I am

Re: version control for config files (was: Re: FAQ splinters)

2004-09-26 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Sonntag 26 September 2004 11:59 schrieb Thomas Templin: > If you are talking of config files which reside in the etc directory this Mh, not all are in /etc, some are on tjener, most are on work stations (we only got one luckywise) and on the LTSP server. We could start a collection of questio

Re: version control for config files (was: Re: FAQ splinters)

2004-09-26 Thread Thomas Templin
On Sunday 26 September 2004 11:35, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote: [...] > thank you for catching the thread - spontaneous I remember the revision > cotrol at wiki pages: You type a comment on any change and can recall each > state of the site. > > Am Sonntag 26 September 2004 11:03 schrieb Patrick Will

Re: version control for config files (was: Re: FAQ splinters)

2004-09-26 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi Patrick, thank you for catching the thread - spontaneous I remember the revision cotrol at wiki pages: You type a comment on any change and can recall each state of the site. Am Sonntag 26 September 2004 11:03 schrieb Patrick Willam: > Or does this glue still have to be made up? Could some

version control for config files (was: Re: FAQ splinters)

2004-09-26 Thread Patrick Willam
Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote: X or not, for administrators who mess around in config files there is a need for an editor tool that not only allows to change files' contents, but at the same time logs the changes (changelog) in some central place and keeps backups (revision control like cvs). All th

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-09-2004 19:48, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote: |>What do the administration courses recommend? | | | For beginners, out of the set of available X-less text editors, mcedit is the | one to prefer. It's the one that goes witch midnight commander (mc) whi

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi Gavin, thank you for raising your question. I also wonder why root cannot start kedit or the like from konsole when the KDE session belongs to a mortal user. Am Samstag 25 September 2004 14:19 schrieb Gavin McCullagh: > As I'm sure you all know, they can't use an editor from the K Menu as > p

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread Karl Hegbloom
On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 16:26 +0200, Espen Myrland wrote: > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > passwd: This is fine if you are physically at the server, but if you are logged in from a thin client to LTSP, your password typing will go over the network in clear-text, since the X11 connection between the serve

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-09-2004 14:19, Gavin McCullagh wrote: | As I'm sure you all know, they can't use an editor from the K Menu as | permissions will not allow it. They can't su root and start an X-based | editor either (X security prevents this). If you talk about a

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread Espen Myrland
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > 1. su root and use a text based editor (eg vim, nano, emacs-nox, jed, ...) > 2. Login to KDE as root (I don't think this is a good idea). > 3. They don't. > 4. Something else? > > As I'm sure you all know, they can't use an editor from the K

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Saturday 25 September 2004 14:19, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > As I'm sure you all know, they can't use an editor from the K Menu as > permissions will not allow it. They can't su root and start an X-based > editor either (X security prevents this). you can do 'kdesu kate' to start kate with root

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread Kurt
* Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040925 14:29]: > On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > > 1. su root and use a text based editor (eg vim, nano, emacs-nox, jed, ...) > > 2. Login to KDE as root (I don't think this is a good idea). > > 3. They don't. > > 4. Something else? >

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > 1. su root and use a text based editor (eg vim, nano, emacs-nox, jed, ...) > 2. Login to KDE as root (I don't think this is a good idea). > 3. They don't. > 4. Something else? 5. "ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and run eg 'kate&' 6. a K Men

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-25 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote: > Q: How to enable mouse wheel on thin clients? > A: Change PS/2 to ImPS/2 on LTSP, file /etc/ltsp/lts.conf What happens if the users have PS/2, Logitech or other mice on their network too? Might this be better set per host in webmin->ltsp? T

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-24 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Dienstag 21 September 2004 20:03 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > Q: How to turn off pc speaker's bell? > A: xset b off - putting this into /etc/bash.bashrc might work I am quite uncertain if it had any effect - now I did yet another thing: Add this line to /etc/inputrc on LTSP server: set bell

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-24 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Freitag 24 September 2004 00:05 schrieb Finn-Arne Johansen: > Okay, thanks for this adding, I didn't want to make it too technical ("I typed in and it didn't work"), but you are right that using 1 as well could overwrite some other local services. To be honest: One of my tunnels brok

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-23 Thread Finn-Arne Johansen
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 06:19:32PM +0200, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote: > Am Dienstag 21 September 2004 20:03 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > > To be continued > > Q: How can I create an ssh tunnel in order to access wlus remotely? > A: Imagine, you can access tjener remotely via IP 1.2.3.4, then logi

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-23 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Dienstag 21 September 2004 20:03 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > To be continued Q: How can I create an ssh tunnel in order to access wlus remotely? A: Imagine, you can access tjener remotely via IP 1.2.3.4, then login by entering "ssh -L 1:localhost: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" in a comman lin

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-22 Thread Finn-Arne Johansen
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 02:51:35PM +0200, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote: > Am Dienstag 21 September 2004 20:03 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > > To be continued > Q: How can I easily backup the contents of the ldap user database? > A: slapcat |gzip -9 >/some_disk/ldap_backup_`date +%y%m%d`.gz > (to be r

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-22 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Dienstag 21 September 2004 20:03 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > To be continued Q: How can I easily backup the contents of the ldap user database? A: slapcat |gzip -9 >/some_disk/ldap_backup_`date +%y%m%d`.gz (to be run daily) Q: Can I make the rules for valid passwords less strict? A: Within

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-22 Thread Harald Thingelstad
On tir, 2004-09-21 at 20:03, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote: > Q: Can't I increase my vertical sync over 60 Hz using "vesa" as driver? > A: No, you need an appropriate driver. Matrox cards should work without > trouble. So does older/cheaper ati cards. Have heard new and "hot" 3d cards have problems?

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-21 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Dienstag 21 September 2004 20:03 schrieb Ralf Gesel|ensetter: > Q: Why doesn't Konqueror use tjener's webcache despite set up > in /etc/kioslaverc? Corr.: /etc/kde2/kioslaverc

Re: FAQ splinters

2004-09-21 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 20:03, Ralf Gesel|ensetter wrote: > Hi, > > for the moment, I lack the time to add these points to our FAQ. So, I > decided to name some points not to forget them. The answers are just from > my memory, before putting them into any official FAQ, they should be > verifi

FAQ splinters

2004-09-21 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Hi, for the moment, I lack the time to add these points to our FAQ. So, I decided to name some points not to forget them. The answers are just from my memory, before putting them into any official FAQ, they should be verified: Q: How to enable mouse wheel on thin clients? A: Change PS/2 to ImPS