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Thank you so much!! That looks much easier than reinstalling. :^)

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

OK, I grabbed off these:
Adduser(2).conf
adduser.conf
preferences
sources.list files

However, the sudoers material says I don't have permission.

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

Thought that might happen

here is the contents of sudoers

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# sudoers file.
#
# This file MUST be edited with the "visudo" command as root.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# User privilege specification
root   ALL=(ALL) ALL
onthego   ALL=/usr/sbin/mesm
%users   ALL=/usr/bin/apt-get -s upgrade

%users ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt

%users ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/reboot

##%users ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/rox



Thanks! I should be able to fix everything now.

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

Linux can do an infinite loop in 5 seconds.

Everything seems to be working OK, including Synaptic and the repositories, except that the reboot and shutdown options don't work now: I have to use # halt or # reboot. The logout option works.

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

Check /etc/group file has your username on these lines

sudo:x:27:anticapitalista
users:x:100:anticapitalista

Mine read:
sudo:x:27:antix, dave
users:x:100:antix, dave

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

you don't need antix there, just your username.

If you logout/login than the reboot/halt should work

Still no joy. I removed the antix entries and the space before 'dave'. However, reboot and shutdown still don't work. I looked at ~/.fluxbox/menu. It is like this:

[exit] (Logout)
[exec] (Reboot) {sudo reboot}
[exec] (Shutdown) {sudo halt}

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

Check the /etc/sudoers file is ok.

What does
sudo reboot in a terminal do?

That was the problem. $ sudo reboot made an error message 'zero length file'. I had commanded # visudo and nano came up so I used it. Must not have saved it correctly or something. Rewrote /etc/sudoers and now # sudo reboot works and the reboot option in the menu works also.

TYVM for your time.

In faith, Dave
Viva Texas

Nine good linux women should be able to produce a baby in one month.

Glad it got fixed. Time for you to enjoy antiX now

I've already been doing that.

O.k. I will try answer your question in english:

Every day I come with the train to my work...
and sometime I find time to try something to install in vmware/virtualbox, a testsystem, my home-notebook or my productive-system (as dual boot to Win xpp).

@homeIn times of Windows 95 I see first a caldera- and a SuSe-Linux. SuSe was popular and well known in old germany. But Linux don´t know my hardware and have not the programms I need.

Later I tried SuSe and Mandriva Linux, but only for testing. There was a Gnome-Desktop, there was a GUI and german language. Most of the system works well (90%). I bravely stayed with (by?) windows.

@work: Then they want a sheep dektop-system at work and try to find a good linux distribution for the daily work. Bit it was not realized. We stay with Windows XPP.

Then Ubuntu 5.04 (i think so) comes in the world, later 7.04. Some desktops become Linux. Some Desktops become only Open-Source (Gimp or OpenOffice for Windows).
Now 5% of the systems are Ubuntu 8.10 with Gnome.

@home: After Mandriva and PClinuxOS (both great for Beginners!!!) and Ubuntu (great Forum, Wiki and Help at Ubuntuusers.de) i tried the real debian and sidux. The Netinstall was a "larger project" for me (i´m a newbie). Gnome, XFCE and KDE are too big, so I tried Fluxbox, Openbox and LXDE.

Now I see AntiX and at the FIRST time a NICE (!) IceWm. It is realy nice! Compliments to anti. I like it and now I will test it. On my Home PC it´s work beside my Win XPP as dual boot. I try to remove something and install something like truecrypt and vidalia.
I try to make a remaster with remastersys ( but ...).

On my labtop antiX-base is running, sidux xfce is removed. It is an 300MHZ-CPU and it is fast. I´m happy.

In future @work we try Ubuntu and @home I want to remove Windows totally (o.k. sometimes I will strat it in a vmware).

tim.strup, Glad you were able to find antiX and try it out. Interesting way you arrived here at antiX.

For me, I am interested in testing distributions, and I am also interested in systems that can be used as Live CDs on occasion, particularly if they are modest in size, yet reasonably complete in functionality. When I saw antiX on the MEPIS site, I figured it might be a bit like the very earliest MEPIS versions, and to some extent, that proved to be true.

As it turns out, though, antiX has some goals that are different than MEPIS, but complementary to MEPIS. Some of those goals include flexibility, the ability to create, and if you want, even remaster, your own version from antiX. Also important are speed and modest size. All of these goals played perfectly into what I was looking for in an extra system.

Personally, I use antiX as one of three main distributions I keep: sidux, antiX, and SimplyMEPIS. I keep sidux because it is cutting edge, I keep antiX because it is fast and flexible, and I keep SimplyMEPIS because it is stable and simple. There is some overlap of these attributes; all three of these distributions are still reasonably general purpose in their capabilities. All three are based on Debian, so they can morph into something else if you wish. All three, though they are based on Sid, Testing, and Stable, still manage to remain quite usable and are not prone to failures, nor are any of them full of defects.