On Saturday 20 May 2006 23:45, James Wright wrote:
I am ready to rock and/or roll ;-). Sorry about the flood of information.
Sorry I didn't focus a little longer on the subject line! ;-) I don't know how comfortable you are working in command line mode. Do you know how to launch YaST's ncurses interface? Are you familiar with mc? Can you change file ownership and permissions?... do basic things like create/remove directories, rename and copy files? I'd just like to know how 'finely grained' my writing of instructions should be. ;-) The first thing I'd do is reset the default to runlevel 3. That way, every time I miss the boot menu countdown timer or forget that I can't boot to runlevel 5, I avoid having to hard reset the system unnecessarily. The default is set in /etc/inittab: # The default runlevel is defined here id:5:initdefault: Change '5' to '3'. The next thing I'd do is pull some information together and e-mail it to me :-) hwinfo > /home/james/forensics/hwinfo.txt lspci -v > /home/james/forensics/lspci.txt lsmod > /home/james/forensics/lsmod.txt cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /home/james/forensics/xorg.conf cp /var/log/messages /home/james/forensics/messages.txt cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log /home/james/forensics/Xorg.0.log.txt cp /var/log/Xorg.99.log /home/james/forensics/Xorg.99.log.txt cp /var/log/SaX.log /home/james/forensics/SaX.log.txt tar and compress it so it's suitable for e-mail: cd /home/james/forensics tar -czf jamesdata.tar.gz *.txt I'll catch up with you tomorrow, James, it's very late and I'm beat! Carl