I've finally found what the problem with kdesu is. Or at least, what
the cause is: kdesu doesn't work when root uses tcsh.
Personally I grew up with tcsh and never could get used to (ba)sh, so
one of the first things I do when installing linux is to change all
shells to tcsh...
-- Alex
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 07:31:45PM +0000, Lord And Master;) wrote:
| drosh wrote:
|
| > Alex ZIJDENBOS wrote:
| > >
| > > I am not able to get kdesu to work. I like the idea of the linuxconf
| > > icon on my desktop, but as a non-root user haven't been able to use
| > > it (I'm running Mandrake 6.1).
| > >
| > > Even if I run kdesu -c from the command line, it just exits after it
| > > takes the password. It does start up kdesud though, and it also
| > > creates the command script in /tmp.
| > >
| > > The closest I've gotten is that the script in /tmp is not created
| > > executable (it's created -rw-------). When I run su -c "/tmp/<script>"
| > > after making <script> executable by hand, it does start the
| > > application correctly.
| > >
| > > Am I missing something? Or is this a bug in kdesu or mandrake?
| > >
| > > Thanks,
| > >
| > > -- Alex
| >
| > It is can be happen when u you are upgrading from other version your
| > system.
| > With new install everything working just fine.
| > --
| > "In Theory there is no difference between Theory and Practice,
| > but in Practice there is."
|
| Ummm I have installed 6.1 fresh and I have the same thing happen, have
| tried nomourous times to get it to work with no luck.
|
| -- John
