If you use visudo, it does the _exact_ same checks as sudo does to the sudoers files before it allows you to write the file. Check the code.
If someone's telling you that they used visudo to edit the file, then saved, then tried to run sudo and it failed because of an error it/etc/sudoers, they're either fibbing or you should report a bug.
But try running a redirected X session after you've lost all your X authentication info, because you're at least 1 'su' deep.
Is it possible that real sysadmins perhaps understand the underlying mechanisms of xforwarding and set the oh-so-hard-to-research XAUTHORITY variable? Wait? It's documented? I never saw that in my Redhat Users guide!!!
Sometimes, though it might be difficult for you to understand, it might help to RTFM. Guess that's the difference between sysadmins and wannabe admins. Sysadmins occasionally RTFM, with the possibility that they even might understand how commands work.
What are you talking about? When has anybody eveer needed/vmlinuz?
As a matter of fact, no. I find grub's command line to be quite accomodating and featureful. When I don't have vmlinuz, I can just append.old onto vmlinuz. What? Someone that doesn't use debian? Pfft, they deserve it.
If you ssh in as yourself the su over to root you lose the X11 tunnel for reasons I don't have the time to investigate.
Well if you do "su" without a "-", it inherits your ENV but then your XAUTHORITY is messed up. Doing export XAUTHORITY=/home/`user I was before`/.Xauthority can solve this.
If you're doing "su -", the - overwrites your ENV with whoever you just su'd too, so you lose your DISPLAY variable(generally localhost:0.10 with -X/-Y).
But...but...but XML and Java APPLETS are teh BESTEST thing ever!! How could they possibly cause problems? They are the glue of the internet! Fast, efficient guarenteed to work everywhere and anywhare!!!!
Are you 100% sure it was from chase? There has been a _tremendous_ amount of chase spam/phishing/spoofing going on lately. By lately I mean within the past 14 days.
Thus, the real problem here is in the nature of people, because as a society we will always act in a way that actually undermines, to a certain extent, the common good, because we care more about ourselves than other people. If human beings were perfectly loving, there'd be no need for government. Wouldn't *that* be the ideal situation, not some individualistic do-it-yourself world where no one helps you to regain your footing?
You're mistaken. In a perfectly loving world, we'd all be screwed. We'd be copasetic, complacent people with no drive, no skills, no challenges and no drive to ever learn/do anything. I guarentee you one thing, and that's that there is at least something worse than an stupid person, and that's a complacent person.
It would for any other company, but see, apple doesn't really care about testing.
For references, see all of the hardware in the 80's and 90's of which I've heard severals stories (like the pb100 melting itself) but am very glad I never experienced. In the late 90s until now, put chalk marks down for:
#1. The IMACs with power buttons that would stick. The clueless owners would always complain that their imacs shut off 8 seconds after turning them on. Little did they realize their favorite company couldn't cut a round hole in some cheap plastic. Instead, it was oval shaped which caused the circlular power buttons to get stuck in.
#2. The cube. The piece of shit that had a temp. sensor shut the thing off when the unit got a little above "warm".
#3. The cube again. Cracking plastic?
#4. Laptop Batteries. G4 and ibook
#5. Laptop Batteries. again.
#6. Laptop AC adapters. g3
#7. Ipod mini scratching
#8. Ipod battery life.
#9. ibook logic board.
That's just the past 6 years, and really only part of the major ones. Most of them are ones they won't admit to but are readily obvious (SUN style).
There's probably a few sites out there that keep track of these, though I'm not aware of any of them.
Simply put: Apple does not do "extra effort". It's difficult for them to even muster up "effort". Moreso, it's quite to even identify traces of feigned effort.
The 1 Bay comes preinstalled with Windows XP professional and offers excellent performance for data recovery and backup.
Great. As if the workstations weren't enough of a headache, now we need to patch, maintain, reboot and license the "tape drive". No thanks. Get a linux box with hotswappable sata. Better yet, it'd be less of a headache to reboot the linux box and swap the drive than go through the hassle of running that crapfest. Not to mention Linux could easily support AES encryption of the drives without more crappy software.
Actually, I'd agree with him for tape devices. Of all the mid-sized tape drives/changes I've ever dealt with, the AIT class has always won, no contest. Although data silos and other high end storage put them to shame in big-data environments, they are certainly not to be looked over in small to mid sized areas. I've ran every thing from DLTs to Travans to drives that aren't even around any more. The DLT drives I run, even with regular cleaning, need the drive replaced every 12-18 months and the tapes are only slightly better. I've taken over AIT2 drives that were a year old, and worked for the next 3. I've since left the company but recently visited and they were still using them. That's 5 years. Same drives. The AIT3 we purchased at that company is now about 3 years old. No problems there, either. I can't wait to start using an ait4. Awesome storage capabilites, excellent speed, good compression, amazingly reliable and not too expensive.
What's wrong with using NIS/+/ldap with automounting nfs homedirs? Root, from arbitrary machines, should have no reason to access mounted homedirs, and the users can still do local root.
How is that hard?
Don't want to automount? Add a line to/etc/fstab.
The whole super custom complex setups, the kind you're digging yourself a into hole for, are the #1 cause for:
1. Hard to troubleshoot problems/issues. 2. Poorly performing infrastructure. 3. Security vulnerabilities. 4. Networks that are hard to make redundant.
Honestly, I either use screen + btdownloadcurses.py or ktorrent. I like simple, no nonsense ones. Though I prefer gnome, I still use some kde apps because they're better for my needs.
SWT uses the native windowing toolkit on your platform of choice (i.e. GTK+ for Linux, GDI for Windows, etc).
Guess what? You can put lipstick on a pig too, but it's still a pig.
Java is bloated if you're running hardware from the 90's. Upgrade into the future, my friend.
Heh, yeah. This Pentium M 1500/1gb ram, AMD64 3000+/2gb ram, P4ht3.06/2gb ram are just too old, I suppose. I mean, if Azeruses runs like a one legged dog when I'm downloading more than 3 torrents, it _must_ be the hardware, right?
Not to drag OSs into this, but Ubuntu breezy & (mainly) dapper have worked with every kernel, k3b and gnomebaker version I've started using ubuntu (Last May-ish) with my Plextor drive.
Something that may help, though I doubt it, check your plextor firmware. They release new versions often and some older version of the firmware are buggy and could play a role in your issues. There's a linux utility to update the firmware from the command line.
Slashdot Mirror
Ummm...
/etc/sudoers, they're either fibbing or you should report a bug.
If you use visudo, it does the _exact_ same checks as sudo does to the sudoers files before it allows you to write the file. Check the code.
If someone's telling you that they used visudo to edit the file, then saved, then tried to run sudo and it failed because of an error it
He who plays with root, will soon kill tree.
Someone other than me deserves credit for this oh-so-true statement.
But try running a redirected X session after you've lost all your X authentication info, because you're at least 1 'su' deep.
Is it possible that real sysadmins perhaps understand the underlying mechanisms of xforwarding and set the oh-so-hard-to-research XAUTHORITY variable? Wait? It's documented? I never saw that in my Redhat Users guide!!!
Sometimes, though it might be difficult for you to understand, it might help to RTFM. Guess that's the difference between sysadmins and wannabe admins. Sysadmins occasionally RTFM, with the possibility that they even might understand how commands work.
What are you talking about? When has anybody eveer needed /vmlinuz?
.old onto vmlinuz. What? Someone that doesn't use debian? Pfft, they deserve it.
As a matter of fact, no. I find grub's command line to be quite accomodating and featureful. When I don't have vmlinuz, I can just append
If you ssh in as yourself the su over to root you lose the X11 tunnel for reasons I don't have the time to investigate.
Well if you do "su" without a "-", it inherits your ENV but then your XAUTHORITY is messed up. Doing export XAUTHORITY=/home/`user I was before`/.Xauthority can solve this.
If you're doing "su -", the - overwrites your ENV with whoever you just su'd too, so you lose your DISPLAY variable(generally localhost:0.10 with -X/-Y).
But...but...but
XML and Java APPLETS are teh BESTEST thing ever!! How could they possibly cause problems? They are the glue of the internet! Fast, efficient guarenteed to work everywhere and anywhare!!!!
Heretic!
Are you 100% sure it was from chase? There has been a _tremendous_ amount of chase spam/phishing/spoofing going on lately. By lately I mean within the past 14 days.
s/re$/re\//
Thus, the real problem here is in the nature of people, because as a society we will always act in a way that actually undermines, to a certain extent, the common good, because we care more about ourselves than other people. If human beings were perfectly loving, there'd be no need for government. Wouldn't *that* be the ideal situation, not some individualistic do-it-yourself world where no one helps you to regain your footing?
You're mistaken. In a perfectly loving world, we'd all be screwed. We'd be copasetic, complacent people with no drive, no skills, no challenges and no drive to ever learn/do anything. I guarentee you one thing, and that's that there is at least something worse than an stupid person, and that's a complacent person.
It's not meaningful to ask them to work on only your pet project since none of it stands in isolation
I'd say it just became a whole helluva lot more meaningful if he's willing to pay for one and not the other. Money talks, open source or not.
It's indentifiable: If you own a mac and your balls are on fire, you have a problem. (Your balls are on fire.)
It would for any other company, but see, apple doesn't really care about testing.
For references, see all of the hardware in the 80's and 90's of which I've heard severals stories (like the pb100 melting itself) but am very glad I never experienced. In the late 90s until now, put chalk marks down for:
#1. The IMACs with power buttons that would stick. The clueless owners would always complain that their imacs shut off 8 seconds after turning them on. Little did they realize their favorite company couldn't cut a round hole in some cheap plastic. Instead, it was oval shaped which caused the circlular power buttons to get stuck in.
#2. The cube. The piece of shit that had a temp. sensor shut the thing off when the unit got a little above "warm".
#3. The cube again. Cracking plastic?
#4. Laptop Batteries. G4 and ibook
#5. Laptop Batteries. again.
#6. Laptop AC adapters. g3
#7. Ipod mini scratching
#8. Ipod battery life.
#9. ibook logic board.
That's just the past 6 years, and really only part of the major ones. Most of them are ones they won't admit to but are readily obvious (SUN style).
There's probably a few sites out there that keep track of these, though I'm not aware of any of them.
Simply put: Apple does not do "extra effort". It's difficult for them to even muster up "effort". Moreso, it's quite to even identify traces of feigned effort.
I understand where you're coming from with NIS(+) being pretty shitty, I should have just stressed some sort of centralized UID/GID system.
It is really a shame if someone is building (God forbid .. distributing) Java applications without taking advantage of this fantastic feature.
.. distributing) Java applications without taking advantage of this kludge.
It is really a shame if someone is building (God forbid
Fixed that for you.
It would be pretty useless at 800MB
I only have 478MB of data to back up, you insensitive clod!
The 1 Bay comes preinstalled with Windows XP professional and offers excellent performance for data recovery and backup.
Great. As if the workstations weren't enough of a headache, now we need to patch, maintain, reboot and license the "tape drive". No thanks. Get a linux box with hotswappable sata. Better yet, it'd be less of a headache to reboot the linux box and swap the drive than go through the hassle of running that crapfest. Not to mention Linux could easily support AES encryption of the drives without more crappy software.
Actually, I'd agree with him for tape devices. Of all the mid-sized tape drives/changes I've ever dealt with, the AIT class has always won, no contest. Although data silos and other high end storage put them to shame in big-data environments, they are certainly not to be looked over in small to mid sized areas. I've ran every thing from DLTs to Travans to drives that aren't even around any more. The DLT drives I run, even with regular cleaning, need the drive replaced every 12-18 months and the tapes are only slightly better. I've taken over AIT2 drives that were a year old, and worked for the next 3. I've since left the company but recently visited and they were still using them. That's 5 years. Same drives. The AIT3 we purchased at that company is now about 3 years old. No problems there, either. I can't wait to start using an ait4. Awesome storage capabilites, excellent speed, good compression, amazingly reliable and not too expensive.
P.S. I also usually passionately dislike Sony.
What's wrong with using NIS/+/ldap with automounting nfs homedirs? Root, from arbitrary machines, should have no reason to access mounted homedirs, and the users can still do local root.
How is that hard?
Don't want to automount? Add a line to
The whole super custom complex setups, the kind you're digging yourself a into hole for, are the #1 cause for:
1. Hard to troubleshoot problems/issues.
2. Poorly performing infrastructure.
3. Security vulnerabilities.
4. Networks that are hard to make redundant.
KISS
Hah. Scping back and forth? Doesn't work so well for several hundred machines.
Honestly, I either use screen + btdownloadcurses.py or ktorrent. I like simple, no nonsense ones. Though I prefer gnome, I still use some kde apps because they're better for my needs.
SWT uses the native windowing toolkit on your platform of choice (i.e. GTK+ for Linux, GDI for Windows, etc).
Guess what? You can put lipstick on a pig too, but it's still a pig.
Java is bloated if you're running hardware from the 90's. Upgrade into the future, my friend.
Heh, yeah. This Pentium M 1500/1gb ram, AMD64 3000+/2gb ram, P4ht3.06/2gb ram are just too old, I suppose. I mean, if Azeruses runs like a one legged dog when I'm downloading more than 3 torrents, it _must_ be the hardware, right?
He forgot the number one "unlike Azureus" thing:
It's not a huge, ugly, bloated java-running piece of shit.
You could live without it: /bin/mv ~/foo /dev/null
Not to drag OSs into this, but Ubuntu breezy & (mainly) dapper have worked with every kernel, k3b and gnomebaker version I've started using ubuntu (Last May-ish) with my Plextor drive.
Something that may help, though I doubt it, check your plextor firmware. They release new versions often and some older version of the firmware are buggy and could play a role in your issues. There's a linux utility to update the firmware from the command line.
Yes, but will it be in time for HD-DVD?