On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Mariana Eneva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I just got on the newbie list. I have three questions that I hope someone
> can answer:
With all due respect, you are asking for several weeks or months worth
of education to take place overnight.
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> (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?
First simple question:: Is your laptop connected to a network? What
network, and how?
Just what do you really mean by "get access"? The ability for someone
in a remote location to log in to your computer and install and run
software?
> (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.
You should not need "sudo" with "mkdir" if you are making a directory
in a part of the file system where you the user have privilege to
write. Since you don't give details of this, it is really difficult
to help further.
>There must be some way to set up this so, that sudo and chmod are not needed.
> Does anyone know how to do it?
I would say that lots of people know how to do it. But you either
need to educate yourself or perhaps hire someone else to do it for
you.
> (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?
Not without seeing it. If I had to guess, I would say that you should
start by following System -> Preferences -> Look and Feel ->
Screensaver and turn off the Screensaver.
To repeat, you need to acquire more knowledge than can be done in one
or two days of asking questions on a mailing list. Even with friendly
well-informed people available to advise you.
carl
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