Thanks Alan. That is what I have been trying to do. I use su from a kconsole.
Have not yet made much use of the other 6 consoles.
Sometimes, being a newbie, I need the GUI as root and that is when the imwheel
becomes a problem.
Thanks for answering.
Jeff
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> Jeff Malka wrote:
> >
> > This is very basic but I am having trouble figuring it out.
> >
> > There is a program called imwheel that produces a file called
> > /tmp/imwheel.pid. If I start it as a user I can overwrite imwheel.pid
> > (which I need to do at boot up). If I happen to start imwheel as root, when
> > I boot again as a user, I cannot overwrite the imwheel.pid produced by root
> > unless I become su to delete it first.
> >
> > Is there a way to force imwheel to produce an imwheel.pid that can be
> > overwritten by any user? How?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Registered Linux user 183185
>
> Jeff....actually this isn't a direct answer to your question,
> but rather food for thought as to how you use the system.
> There really is never a need to boot into level 5 and login as
> root. You can do anything you need to as root from a level 5
> login as a normal unpriveleged user.
>
> You can login as root to any of the 6 consoles (ctl-alt-f[1
> thru 6]) and return to your desktop (it's a good idea to
> logout before returning) when done (alt-f7). You can run any
> of the console programs and use the command 'su -' to become
> root. And you can run KFM as 'su root'
> (K[menu]->Applications->File tools->File Manager(Super User
> Mode).
>
> Using these tools to do my work as root, I never login as root
> (except into 1 of the 6 consoles that I acvcess as a user, and
> then only for the time it takes to do the chore that needs
> root access) and when I am acting as root it's only for the
> short period of time it takes to actually do what needs to be
> done as root.
>
> Try it, you might like it. :-)
>
> Alan
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Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Registered Linux User 348854
