Hey Sunnan,
Nobody is one of the default users in a Linux
install. I've only paritially followed this thread but
is it the actual su transition or the commmands that you
issue after the transition to the substitute user? Also
what does your meminfo look like 'promt#free' ? Are you
writing to sw
> The load average that top shows was round 0,60 0,90 0,90 etc...
Fairly normal...
> the passwd file list a user that seems suspicious: "nobody".
> Dumb as I am this was my first look ever in the passwd file, so I don't know if
> that user should be there. I fear I've been subject to a trickery
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, Bad Mojo wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Sunnanvind wrote:
> > No, I hadn't - I ran a top after I got this mail, and the processes looked
> > fine, but it says "6 users"... it usually says 3 or 5 users... I don't know
> > anything about this topic, really.
> > Sunnan
>
> I woul
Hi Emma,
What is the error he gets when the user tries and fails to get his mail?
Also what does it say in /var/log/maillog about it?
The problem you describe about using su is natural enough, su alone will
change your username and group but nothing much else. It sounds like
you're running su fr
Tania Morell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For System Commander just tell Linux to put lilo in
>> the root partition and then System Commander will
>> find it and it will work. I use it like that all the
>> time.
>>
>> April
>> --
>> Do you do Linux? :)
>> Get your FREE @linuxst
>So, what sort of company is Eurocom? Is it a mail-order place, a chain
>store, or a local thing? Sounds like a great place, so I'm wondering if I
>can find one in my neighborhood...
http://www.eurocom.ca
They're a local company to me, which is why I have such an easy time with
servicing, beca
On Feb 2, Terri Oda conjectured:
> Incidentally, the other thing I loved about Eurocom was that their techs
> were totally unphased when I brought it in for servicing (the hard drive
> was faulty) and they found that i'd made it a dual boot. They told me that
> I'd have to reinstall linux myself
Incidentally, the other thing I loved about Eurocom was that their techs
were totally unphased when I brought it in for servicing (the hard drive
was faulty) and they found that i'd made it a dual boot. They told me that
I'd have to reinstall linux myself when they gave me the new drive, but
they
Oh -- another thing about Dell -- all or most of their upgrades -- flash
BIOS, DIAG's, are in ".EXE" format -- which means you need access to
a Windoze machine to extract them to floppies. Why they can't just
provide them in a tar'ed zip format as well, I dunno.
Right now, for example, I copied
Seems like you have had a lot of Hardware problems with your 7500. having
> worked as a 3rd level tech support engineer for Hitachi, I know that all the
> manufacturers will replace a faulty box (usually defined as 3 or more HW
> problems) and upgrade the replacement if "asked" to by the custome
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Sunnanvind wrote:
> No, I hadn't - I ran a top after I got this mail, and the processes looked
> fine, but it says "6 users"... it usually says 3 or 5 users... I don't know
> anything about this topic, really.
> Sunnan
I would examine your passwd file by hand. I prefer the gu
Hi Linda,
Seems like you have had a lot of Hardware problems with your 7500. having
worked as a 3rd level tech support engineer for Hitachi, I know that all the
manufacturers will replace a faulty box (usually defined as 3 or more HW
problems) and upgrade the replacement if "asked" to by the cust
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, Kelly Kirby wrote:
> On Wed, 02 February 2000, Sunnanvind wrote:
>
> >
> > The "su" command on my system has become remarkably slow - is this a sign that
> > security's been compromised?
> > It used to be pretty fast, just type su and the password... now it takes like
> > ag
Kelly Lynn Martin wrote:
> Dell has an optional service package for laptops where you can call
> them and they'll swap your broken laptop with a working one with you
> within 48 hours. This includes damage which would not normally be
> covered by warranty, such as "I dumped coffee in it". There
On Wed, 02 February 2000, Sunnanvind wrote:
>
> The "su" command on my system has become remarkably slow - is this a sign that
> security's been compromised?
> It used to be pretty fast, just type su and the password... now it takes like
> ages...
> Sunnan
Excuse, please, my newness.. but, hav
The "su" command on my system has become remarkably slow - is this a sign that
security's been compromised?
It used to be pretty fast, just type su and the password... now it takes like
ages...
Sunnan
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Hi -- I'm not sure my message to Davida got through, but someone
else's with similar advice did. I *have* done this in order that a museum
floor kiosk could boot straight to the user interface. In the
/etc/init.d section i simply added a script in which the relevant line
was
su - kiosk -c star
I hopw someone can help me: I'm not very experienced in Linux and I'm
taking in charge a Sendmail server. Lately I'm having always the same
problem with users very often: a certain user cannot receive his mail, and
when I try to login with this user, the message (last login...you have
mail
Hi everyone,
About your discussion on laptops, I wouldn't recommend you Inspiron. We've
purchased recently 16 of them and we're having serveral problems and
technical support just doesn't existWe didn't install Linux bu with
other OS such as MS and Novell we always foud the same story...
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