sudoers

2014-05-15 Thread Charl Wentzel
Hi Guys I recently struggled with an issue for quite a few days because of the way the /etc/sudoers file is laid out. I would like to make a suggestion to change it that would hopefully save others the same hassle. I wanted to debugging in Eclipse which required me to let Eclipse run gdb with su

Re: sudoers

2014-05-16 Thread Charl Wentzel
On 17/05/2014 01:35, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > On 16 May 2014 07:26, Charl Wentzel wrote: >> I wanted do to debugging in Eclipse which required me to let Eclipse run >> gdb with sudo. However, for this to work, sudo must not ask for a >> password. So I've added t

Re: sudoers

2014-05-17 Thread Charl Wentzel
On 17/05/2014 14:11, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > Whilst coding you may want to open up /dev/port, e.g. > $ sudo chmod g+w /dev/port # if you need r/w access > $ sudo adduser `id -un` kmem > (re-login) > > This will open up /dev/port for r+w to yourself (well anyone in kmem > group). This is slight

Re: Pre-upgrade warnings and advice?

2014-06-02 Thread Charl Wentzel
On 02/06/2014 21:49, Neal McBurnett wrote: > Ubuntu support for upgrades naturally depends on exactly what is being > upgraded. Use of software from outside the official Ubuntu repositories (PPA > repositories or .deb files or tar.gz packages or the like) means upgrades may > be more complicate

Re: Change what is considered by apt-get as major amount of disk space

2015-03-25 Thread Charl Wentzel
On 25/03/2015 18:52, Jim Cobley wrote: > Trouble is your system may have a big disk whilst another (eg > raspberry) will probably be very tight on space. > Some people may consider 10Mb to be peanuts whilst others may think of > it as gold dust. > How to choose? > Better to leave it as is - a bit d

Re: Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386

2016-07-01 Thread Charl Wentzel
On 29/06/2016 15:37, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Folks, I think we need to understand whether i386 won't be widely used for very small IoT devices and hence be important for developers targeting those. I accept i386 i no longer relevant for PC's and laptops, but I would not be surprised if 32-bit x8

Re: Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386

2016-07-01 Thread Charl Wentzel
On 01/07/2016 21:05, Bryan Quigley wrote: Can you elaborate on what specific systems you are purchasing today that use 32-bit x86 (I believe the only vendors ever were AMD, Intel and VIA)? The chipsets are mostly AMD and Intel as you've stated. The vendor I purchase from mostly is iEi. They

Re: Eclipse IDE

2017-11-05 Thread Charl Wentzel
On 05/11/2017 10:33, Nils wrote: Is it possible to update Eclipse from the ubuntu repositories 3.8.1 version came out in September 2012 and today we are near 2018, so it would be very nice to update it. I never install Eclipse from the repositories, because it's always a significantly old