you have to add root user to the list of X users...i think you have to use something like: xhost+=... dont remember exactly...if you google it...you will surely find a solution. i used to run into this when compiling a kernel.you can probably read one of those howto's too to figure this out. Rishabh
-- Rishabh Manocha http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/rmanocha **********Your Quote for the day********** The organisation of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phoney. Paul Goodman, US writer, The Community of Scholars, 1962 ****************************************** On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > > I am using debian testing/unstable w/ kde. When I try to open nmap as root > after doing 'su' I get the following error. > > ------------------------ > debian:/home/spavri# nmapfe > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 > ------------------------ > > I am able to do this in RH 9. The perms of nmapfe are 755 in both Debian > as well as RH. > > regards, > > Sharukh. > -- > Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri Homeopath and Linuxer. > Mumbai, India. http://www.pavri.net/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
