Re: [gentoo-user] Can't su - to root, etc

2005-06-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan schreef: My network updates its software every night at midnight. There was a problem with a couple of blocking packages night before last, so I unmerged the two blocking packages and did the emerge -avuD world in a screen. Now they're done and I can no longer su - to root

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't su - to root, etc

2005-06-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
I emerged mail-notification awhile back (someone on this list was talking about it.) I opened a terminal and typed in mail-notification and I get this message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mail-notification (mail-notification:15971): Gnome-WARNING **: Accessibility: failed to find module

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't su - to root, etc

2005-06-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan schreef: I emerged mail-notification awhile back (someone on this list was talking about it.) I opened a terminal and typed in mail-notification and I get this message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mail-notification (mail-notification:15971): Gnome-WARNING **: Accessibility:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't su - to root, etc

2005-06-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
mail-notification is not available to be added to my gnome panel. I don't see anything available that seems to have anything to do with mail. Mail Notification is, however, available off my Main Menu-Internet menu On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 18:41 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Michael Sullivan

[gentoo-user] Can't su - to root, etc

2005-06-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
My network updates its software every night at midnight. There was a problem with a couple of blocking packages night before last, so I unmerged the two blocking packages and did the emerge -avuD world in a screen. Now they're done and I can no longer su - to root from my personal account. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't su - to root, etc

2005-06-10 Thread Rafael Dantas de Castro
to check in what groups your user is in you can just type $ groups to change the groups, you have to do, as root, % usermod -G [groups] user you have to include all groups in a comma separated list (for example: users,wheel ), I don´t think you can simply add a group... don´t have any ideas as

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't su - to root, etc

2005-06-10 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, You have to be in 'wheel' group to su - to root, or was this for sudo. check. Could also use 'gpasswd' to add a user to a group, run man gpasswd. HTH. Rumen Rafael Dantas de Castro wrote: to check in what groups your user is in you can just type $ groups to change the groups, you have to do,