On Saturday 19 December 2015 01:52:46 Michele Calgaro wrote: > On 12/17/2015 03:06 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > Out of curiosity, I tried to run ksysv from the tde menu. Can't. If > > insists on a root pw that does not exist on this debian wheezy > > install. A sudo -i in a konsole for me, and it runs just fine. > > > > This really ought to be fixed. No biggie for me, but... > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > No issues here (Debian/Stretch) with ksysv. Just typed in the root > password and it worked flawlessly. The fact that ksysv requires root > password is not surprising since you are playing with the system > config. Cheers > Michele > You missed the point, it demands a root pw, that on this wheezy system, does not exist, so it cannot be launched from the menu entry by any pw entered. The pw used for doing a sudo is not accepted. That was my point. Don't put it in the menu's at all if the user cannot use his sudo to get the root rights it needs. I am used to defeating petty attempts to mold linux networking to someones idea of consistency, but which is an abject failure where one's home network, all behind a good router, is all based on the common to all machines /etc/hosts file, with a locally carved in granite hostname per machine. Turning network-mangler loose in that environment is a no networking disaster, so the first thing you have to do on the install reboot, is sudo -i, make the entry's for that machine in /etc/network/interfaces, chmod +i that file, then nuke the link and make a real /etc/resolv.conf, and chmod +i that. If udev hasn't played with things and moved eth0 to something else, thats it. Your networking Just Works(TM) Then at your leasure you can uninstall network-mangler. No use of its burning cpu cycles trying to tear down what you just made immutible. Network-mangler might be of use in the situation where the machine is connected directly to the access modem. Thats for folks who do not understand the need for an isolating, natting, 20 hungry pit-bull guard dogs for a firewall, router. Without that, a windows box is owned 30 seconds after the cat5 is plugged in. The linux box is at risk but its lower. I haven't worried about that since I discovered dd-wrt, which can be reflashed into the better routers. To me, its a transparent gateway to the net. To the net, if no port forwarding is being done, its a cable with an address with nothing on the other end of it. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read > list messages on the web archive: > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Some mill pix are at: Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene/GO704-pix>