Sun, 30 Sep 2007, by lynn@steve-ss.com:
On Saturday 29 September 2007 21:11, Richard Creighton wrote:
primm wrote:
<snip> Hi and thanks Joe. You give me new hope.
Another doubt I had was as to whether this list was also for people using opensuse commercially. Maybe I'm breaking the law making money indirectly from opensuse. I don't mind paying for support but the advice here is all I need.
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Lynn, STOP feeling guilty about USING Linux and certainly stop feeling guilty about asking for help, whether or not you eventually make a profit from the information is irrelevant.
I felt guilty before because another poster told me that I ought to know about linux permissions. In fact I did but needed help with them as a beginner. That's why I thought I was wasting list members time. It seemed to be a list just for experts.
It's probably me you were refering to. I did not tell you that you 'ought to know', I told you that you would do yourself a favor when you teach yourself the basics of the permission schemes, amongst other things. We all love to help other Linux users of course, specially when, like you, they show a 'here to stay' attitude, but plunging in an (Internet-wide) server setup without knowing the basics is just not smart. First of all, now that it's up and working; do you really know why it's working and how to repeat it in different setups or situations? If not: how do you know you didn't create a (potential) security problem? Second: next time just say that you need extra guideness, because otherwise people (like me, mea culpa) will assume that you only need minimal hints, and you wind up having to digg deeper and deeper for the answers you really need. Thirth: kudos for getting the job done by yourself. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 10.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.20 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org