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Re: [orca-list] system admin

Hi Mohammed:
I'm glad you are brave. :-) To start off with the basic editing of files, you might try doing a Google search for "creating files in linux". That might lead you to the wonderful world of vi, vim, emacs, pico, etc. Everyone will have their opinion of how to create/edit files.
Personally, I use 'vi' and 'visudo' for short editing tasks and 'emacs' for serious tasks. I also make frequent use of 'cat'. I don't have a while lot of time to write a tutorial on any of these, but I'm sure there's bound to be lots and lots of tutorials already written which can be found via a simple Google search.
Hope this helps! Keep in mind that I am not in control of your keyboard. Whatever you type and whatever you do is ultimately your responsibility. 

Will

Mohammed Al-shar' wrote:

hi Willie:
I am not exactly new to Linux, I keep going and coming back. so I am confident I will not mess my system up if I enable root, (not that I care if that happens anyway). . what I want to be able to do is make orca speak if I enter one of the administrative menus, or launch such applications as super user. imho, my pc is boring if I can't get access to whatever I like to access in it. so, unless I experiment, I will never learn.
to say the truth, and to give credit to you people, each time I come back to Linux I find things improving. last time we had the problem of playing audio and orca at the same time, but that is now taken care of in the latest ubuntu. all that a user have to do is insure that pulse audio is taking care of their sound. the second annoyance was having to install Firefox and orca from sources, again, the latest ubuntu works out of the box. to me, the third annoyance is making orca speak when I need access to an application that requires super user's privilege. that's why I am posting this question. 

thank you very much for your patience.

Mohammed Al-shar'

----- Original Message ----- From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
To: "Mohammed Al-shar'" <mohammed atexplorer com>
Cc: <Orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] system admin



Hi Mohammed:
Unfortunately, doing things as the 'root' user is a very risky thing if you are not familiar with Linux. You risk trashing your system (i.e., needing to reinstall it), opening it up to security risks, etc. As such, if you do not know how to edit files yet, you may not be at the point where you should be doing things as the root user.
I wish there were currently a more automated/foolproof way to configure this stuff. Right now, however, you need to have basic file editing skills and some level of Linux knowledge to do the work. Ideally, your distribution would come with things already configured and ready to go, but it's not at the point yet. 

Will

Mohammed Al-shar' wrote:


hi list.
on the Orca page there are instructions to enable system administration on hardy with Orca as follows: 
 "SYS ADMIN:
1) Create root's ~/.orbitrc file (/root/.orbitrc, with and owner.group of root.root with a mode of 644 on my system): 

 ORBIIOPIPv4=1
ORBIIOPUNIX=0
2) Edit /etc/sudoers to add the following line after the line with "env_reset" in it: 

 Defaults env_keep+="GTK_MODULES"
Everything else seems to have been taken care of by Luke and Ubuntu (thanks Luke!), at least for my decrepit Toshiba Tecra M2 laptop. " can anyone of you help me by rewriting this in a clear step by step instructions? I don't know how to create a file yet, and I forgot how to edit a file as root. 
 thanks.
Mohammed Al-shar'


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