Re: [orca-list] Resp.: Admin Features for Slackware Users

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 12:47 +0200, Halim Sahin wrote:
> Hi,
> On Di, Mai 20, 2008 at 06:55:51 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > I need to get some notes together on just what I did to get it all
> > working but I still can't get the admin method to work.  I just got
> > through trying to run network-admin for example from both alt-f2 and a
> > gnome terminal and silence both times.  When I tried it from a
> > terminal, it went silent as I just said so I opened up a regular
> > speakup console and killed network-admin and speech came right back.
> > So I guess I will not be doing any admin tasks from the gnome
> > environment.
>
> Create a .orbitrc file under /root with the folowing content
>
>
>
> ORBIIOPIPv4=1
> ORBIIOPUNIX=0
>
> Open a shell and run the visudo command.
> You have to add 
>    Defaults:john env_keep=GTK_MODULES
Interesting, I don't have any Defaults line uncommented in /etc/sudoers
and things work fine for me.

If everything else is certain to be correct (what I have seen seems to
be), then I am wondering if it is worth while removing the possible
problems such as the sudo command, things work fine if I switch users
with the su command to switch to root and then run something such as
network-admin.

These may seem very simple, but make sure you have the right
permissions, such as being a member of the right groups.
> Then you can start network-admin by typing
> sudo network-admin in gnome-terminal.
> HTH.
> Halim