At 10:31 PM 5/17/2000 -0400, Benjamin Scott wrote:
ah ha! that is what i need - the export DISPLAY!
can i just put that in my .bashrc file?
>On Tue, 16 May 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
> > in win2k i use eudora pro. on freshmeat there are several GUI mail
> > clients for gnome, however none of them support pop3 mail!
>
> Mail in Unix is traditionally handled by an MTA (Mail Transport Agent) at
>the system level, and then read using an MUA (Mail User Agent).
>
> A very good MTA for POP3 is fetchmail, which is included in most
>distributions. It is, at its core, a command-line program, but I wouldn't be
>surprised if someone has designed a GUI front-end for it by now.
>
> > ben said something about running the xserver as root.
>
> I don't recall exactly what we were talking about at the time, but it was
>likely either:
>
> - A mention of the fact that the X server itself runs SUID to root, in
> order
> to obtain permission to manipulate the graphics adapter.
>
> - Explanation of why I was logging in as root. At one point, we were
> playing with the configuration of XFree, and you need to be root to edit
> the XF86Config file.
>
> > i have always run it as a user. if i was to run x as root and then
> > connect to it. how would i do that?
>
> Not sure what you're after here...
>
> The X server automatically runs with root privileges; you don't have to
>worry about that. This is because the X server executable itself has the SUID
>(Set User IDentification) bit set, and is owned by root.
>
> If you want to login as root from the console and start an X session, or
>login to an XDM session as root, you can do that without any significant
>changes to the procedure you follow as a user. You might need to add
>"/usr/bin/X11" to root's PATH in some cases.
>
> If you want to "su" to root and then run X programs, you can do that,
> too.
>Start by opening an xterm as a user. Issue "su -" and enter the password.
>Then use "export DISPLAY=:0" to tell programs in that session to access the
>local display. You may also have to do an "xhost +localhost" before the "su"
>command.
>
>--
>Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>call |
>| 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." -- Mary
>Pickford |
>
>
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