Hi Barry, On Thursday 23 October 2003 09:09, Barry Marler wrote: > Why do you want to read your mail as root?
As ROOT I carry out adminstration work but I communicate with outside World as USER. Occasionally while doing administration I need to refer to data on emails. Most time on other PCs I use SSH to help me. However on this PC SSH can't work. I tried sudo instead. B.R. Stephen > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 01:04, Stephen Liu wrote: > > Hi all folks > > > > I encountered problem in using 'sudo' > > > > # epm -q sudo > > sudo-1.6.7_p5 > > > > # sudo -u satimis kmail > > trying to create local folder: Permission denied > > failed to create /root/.kde/socket-mymachine > > kdeinit: Aborting. No write access to $HOME directory <root> > > ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Can't setup DCOP communication > > > > # ls -l /root/.kde/ > > total 1 > > drwx ------ 2 root root Autostart > > drwx ------ 10 root root share > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root socket-mymachine -> /tmp/ksocket-root > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root tmp-mymachine -> /tmp/kde-root > > > > # ls -l /root/.kde/socket-mymachine/ > > -rw-r-r-- 1 root root KSMServer__0 > > srw------- 1 root root kdeinit-:0 > > srwxr-xr-x 1 root root klauncherxDBXNa.slave-socket > > > > Kindly advise. > > > > B.R. > > Stephen Liu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
