Hi all,
I just got on the newbie list. I have three questions that I hope someone can answer: (1) I need to grant a remote access to someone, so that he can install and set up certain software on my Linux laptop. I have Ubuntu Linux. I know this is not generally advisable, but it has to be done in this case, because he is not in San Diego and there are too m any setups fro me to be able to do myself. How can I set up my laptop so that he can get access? (2) In (1) above, I am worried that some of their scripts will not work, because of the need for "sudo" to precede some commands. For example, I need sudo even with "mkdir", etc. Also, each directory I create needs then "sudo chmod 777 .", as otherwise I cannot copy files to it. There must be some way to set up this so, that sudo and chmod are not needed. Does anyone know how to do it? (3) I went to the Installfest yesterday - I already had Ubuntu, but I needed help with repartitioning that Gus graciously provided. In the process, he discovered that I was running the old kernel 2.6.15-51-386 and helped me get 2.6.15-51-686. However, if I now start with 686 I get scrambled text and weird colors. So, I reverted to starting with 386. This worked as before, but when I left the screen for a while, I returned to find the same scrambled text as with 686. This is the first time I am getting this problem and I do not know what it means. Can anyone help me to fix that? Thank you in advance and I apologize for these ignorant questions. Mariana -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
