Is configuring linux hard?
People always say “Ah, but configuring linux/unix is hard - you have to mess with all those configuration files!”. Well: (from a discussion site)
The problem:
Last week, our phone guy decided to reinstall the OS on our main voice mail server. Since it was running a “lowly” copy of Windows 2000 Pro, he decided that it needed a “server-grade” OS, and bought Microsoft Windows 2003 Server for Small Businesses. He installed in near the end of the week, and then took time off to put a new roof on his house.
Well, this morning, the machine in question shut itself off. I turned it on, it shut itself off again in a couple of hours. I looked in event log, and found that the machine was turning itself off because we violated the EULA by not setting it up as a domain controller.
Yep. Just because we didn’t need to authenticate users, the machine keeps shutting itself off. Isn’t that user-friendly?
The “solution”:
MS has this ridiculous system service called “SBSCore” that exists only to turn off the computer every hour if you aren’t running as a DC. Install SysInternals’ Process Explorer, suspend/pause sbscrexe, go into the registry to set the service to disabled, then remove all read permissions for every account from the actual file. The file is in \windows\system32\sbscrexe.exe. Then you can terminate the process. Don’t delete the file, though, that really got Windows upset when I tried that.
Reg key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\SBCore
In regedit, right click, give Administrators permission to the key and all child nodes. Then change the Start DWORD that will appear undernearth that to 4.
I still think that changing one line or two in /etc/foo is easier.
November 2nd, 2006 at 9:51 pm
eu ainda tou relutando…
instalei o linux no meu PCzinho, mas deixei o ruindows lá pros casos de emergência… o problema é que, mesmo assim, eu continuo só usando o ruindows.
Meu bofe quer a todo custo me convencer a largar esta vida mundana e comprar um Mac de vez. Mas pra uma “tia” que usa ruindows desde 1989, talvez fosse um passo muuuuuuuuuito maior do que a perna….
… a verdade é que ser usuária de PC e de ruindows ficou cômodo. Eu nem preciso pensar pra fazer nada. É que nem namoro/ casamento: vc sabe que a pessoa tem um monte de defeitos, mas pelo menos são defeitos que você já conhece…
… sigh… acho que sou mesmo uma tia véia… :-/
November 7th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
Hmmm, olha so, nao sou nenhum mac maniaco, muito pelo contrario, mas o passo windows -> mac parece ser bem menos do que windows -> linus: pelo menos voce tem o seu bofe para te ajudar.
Eu conheco uma pa de gente aqui no japao que comprou mac, sem ser computeiro nem nada!
Ja eu, eu gosto mesmo eh de linha de comando, entao Mac nao rola pra mim