On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:07 PM, V K Madhavan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > 1. I have Clam TK Virus Scanner loaded. To get updates it says that I have > to be "root". How do I solve this? > 3. If I try to make changes to /etc../wvin.config it does not save it and > says that I am not permitted to do so. This file is not under your permission, so you cannot edit it. this file may be under Root user. ---- Dear Madhavan, you need to understand the concept of Root User... a running linux system has many users. you are one the user who even has a good harddisk space in /home/madhavan .. like that.... Root is the superuser which can do anything on system,,,, in ubuntu you can behave like root user by typing *sudo su* in command line and after that you can launch application by console/terminal *or* by typing the password in GUI applications which generally give a popup window for --- "Please Enter Root Password" if you do not know root passsword then use *sudo passwd root *--- *Advice : Please get a good books on Linux or read some good tutorial on basic use case of Linux system* > > Madhavan > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ R&D Engineer │ http://narendra.techfandu.org └─────────────────────────┘ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
