Re: XFree86 & dselect questions

1999-03-28 Thread Lev Lvovsky
ahh, cool! I also messed around and found that the '--rcfile' option worked. thanks for the help! -lev On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote: > You can use the the "-" option, as in "su -", to get a similar effect. > This causes the your new session to use through the new user's startu

Re: XFree86 & dselect questions

1999-03-28 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 11:35:07PM +, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > > right, I usually use 'su' w/o the user specified, as I normally wanna get > root priveleges...problem is, my PATH's aren't set. With RH, you could do > an 'su -l', and get the PATH of the user you were switching to. Is there > a swi

Re: XFree86 & dselect questions

1999-03-28 Thread Lev Lvovsky
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Daniel J. Brosemer wrote: > On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > > > I'm new to the Debian distro, and relatively new to Linux in general (was > > > 3. In RedHat, the 'su' command allowed and '-l' switch, which would take > > the path settings of user to be su'ed to (

Re: XFree86 & dselect questions

1999-03-28 Thread Will Lowe
> doing soemthing wrong, but was something as simple as Pine left out of > the distro? Anywho, basically, I guess dselect is the easier way to do > things, but I can't even find Netscape in there. Is there a page onthe Both of these don't fit Debian's idea of free (see http://www.debian.org/intr

Re: XFree86 & dselect questions

1999-03-28 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > I'm new to the Debian distro, and relatively new to Linux in general (was > using Red Hat until its security issues began to bother me). Go easy on > me :) > > several questions: > > 1. I can only run 'xinit' or 'startx' as root, running it from my regu

XFree86 & dselect questions

1999-03-28 Thread Lev Lvovsky
Hello, I'm new to the Debian distro, and relatively new to Linux in general (was using Red Hat until its security issues began to bother me). Go easy on me :) several questions: 1. I can only run 'xinit' or 'startx' as root, running it from my regular acct says that I don't have permissions to