Hi, everybody. I am having a strange problem that I do not not how to solve. I usually run X as a normal user and I open one xterm as root (with su) to do the fancy stuff. >From the normal user, I do 'xhost localhost' and then run ethereal in the root window. Up to here, everything works fine, ethereal opens and I am able to start capturing packets, but then, if I stop capturing and try to start again, with ethereal still open, it dies and the root window complains about not being able to access the display... I have to type again in the user window 'xhost localhost' to be able to restart ethereal!!!
Is there any kind of timer on xhost? How do I add permanently the root user in my machine so that everything I run in the root window has rights to access the display?!?! Any help or ideas are greatly welcomed!! Thanks in advance! /Nacho -- Ignacio Más Ivars Department of Teleinformatics - Royal Institute of Technology (KTH/IT) Electrum, 204 S-164 40 KISTA (Sweden) Office phone: +46 8 7521497 Office fax: +46 8 7511793 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.it.kth.se/~nacho/