Re: How to patch a physically weak system & recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-22 Thread Tim
I find this recommendation better than building a release and upgrading that way. Thank you. John Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:03:27PM +0200, Tim wrote: > Hello > > 1. I have a old computer that is slow and has little memory. But I want to > keep it updated with

Re: How to patch a physically weak system & recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-20 Thread Rogier Krieger
On 8/20/05, viq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I had to log in as root a few times, to build some of the ports. > Well, maybe not _HAD_ to, but i didn't really know how to otherwise allow > user to use more RAM just for the build. How about using the -c option to sudo(8)? It allows you to

Re: How to patch a physically weak system & recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-20 Thread Alexander Farber
Or maybe put SUDO=sudo -c staff into /etc/mk.conf and also put yourself (the non-root user) into the wsrc group 2005/8/20, viq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hmm, 'sudo -c builders make build', nice. But... I am already > member of class 'staff', which in login.conf is described:

Re: How to patch a physically weak system & recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-20 Thread viq
On Saturday 20 of August 2005 12:38, Rogier Krieger wrote: > On 8/20/05, viq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, I had to log in as root a few times, to build some of the > > ports. Well, maybe not _HAD_ to, but i didn't really know how to > > otherwise allow user to use more RAM just for the

Re: How to patch a physically weak system & recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-20 Thread viq
On Thursday 18 of August 2005 20:12, Nick Holland wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:02:21PM +, Scott Plumlee wrote: > > Nick Holland wrote: > and if you could find a REASON you absolutely had to login as root from > a multi-user system, you could always do a "sudo su -" which will take > y

Re: How to patch a physically weak system & recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-18 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:12:00 -0400, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I also tend to have an "alias ]=sudo" in my .profiles. It's obvious you can type accurately *and* you don't have a cat... (; JCR

Re: How to patch a physically weak system & recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-18 Thread Nick Holland
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:02:21PM +, Scott Plumlee wrote: > Nick Holland wrote: > >When I set up an OpenBSD system, one of the first things I do is create > >a personal user for myself, put myself in the wheel group, configure > >sudo to let wheel users do anything, log in as that user, and di

Re: How to patch a physically weak system & recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-18 Thread Jason Crawford
On 8/18/05, Scott Plumlee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Holland wrote: > > Tim wrote: > > > >>Hello > >> > >>1. I have a old computer that is slow and has little memory. But I > >>want to keep it updated with patches. I can't compile these patches > >>on the system but I could do it on another

Re: How to patch a physically weak system & recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-18 Thread Scott Plumlee
Nick Holland wrote: Tim wrote: Hello 1. I have a old computer that is slow and has little memory. But I want to keep it updated with patches. I can't compile these patches on the system but I could do it on another faster system. But how can I later apply the compiled patches to the weak syste

Re: How to patch a physically weak system & recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-18 Thread Nick Holland
Tim wrote: > Hello > > 1. I have a old computer that is slow and has little memory. But I > want to keep it updated with patches. I can't compile these patches > on the system but I could do it on another faster system. But how can > I later apply the compiled patches to the weak system? In addit

Re: How to patch a physically weak system & recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-18 Thread Jason Crawford
On 8/18/05, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > 1. I have a old computer that is slow and has little memory. But I want to > keep it updated with patches. I can't compile these patches on the system but > I could do it on another faster system. But how can I later apply the > compiled pa

Re: How to patch a physically weak system & recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-18 Thread John Wright
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:03:27PM +0200, Tim wrote: > Hello > > 1. I have a old computer that is slow and has little memory. But I want to > keep it updated with patches. I can't compile these patches on the system > but I could do it on another faster system. But how can I later apply the > com

Re: How to patch a physically weak system & recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-18 Thread Scott Francis
On 8/18/05, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > 2. Alot of you seem to use sudo instead of su - when you want to do > > something that requires privileges. Why is this? What settings are > > you using for sudo? > > Various reasons .. if you use sudo on each command you want to e

Re: How to patch a physically weak system & recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 18 August 2005 13:03 +0200, Tim wrote: 1. I have a old computer that is slow and has little memory. But I want to keep it updated with patches. I can't compile these patches on the system but I could do it on another faster system. But how can I later apply the compiled patches to the weak

How to patch a physically weak system & recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-18 Thread Tim
Hello 1. I have a old computer that is slow and has little memory. But I want to keep it updated with patches. I can't compile these patches on the system but I could do it on another faster system. But how can I later apply the compiled patches to the weak system? 2. Alot of you seem to use