Re: Desktop FreeBSD - is it up to it?

2004-02-07 Thread peter lageotakes
--- vext01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd on my desktop too. I can do the things I want to, it just seems that i need to be root to

Re: desktop freebsd??

2004-02-06 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi all, I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd on my desktop too. I can do the things I want to, it just seems that i need to be root to do

(const port *) Re: desktop freebsd??

2004-02-06 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:30:38 - Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Hi all, I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd on my desktop too. I can do the things I want to, it

Re: desktop freebsd??

2004-02-06 Thread Darryl Grant
Perhaps you can use sudo for your normal user and setup the sudoers file for only the privleges you want your normal users to have. HTH, Darryl On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:30:38AM -, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi all, I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and it

Re: desktop freebsd??

2004-02-06 Thread Dan Pelleg
Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd on my desktop too. I can do the things I want to, it just seems that i need to be root to do a

Re: desktop freebsd??

2004-02-06 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Darryl Grant wrote: Perhaps you can use sudo for your normal user and setup the sudoers file for only the privleges you want your normal users to have. HTH, Darryl I've found this to be handy also in Gnome. Assigning sudo ppp -background myisp to an icon gives a better then M$

Re: desktop freebsd??

2004-02-06 Thread greg
Make yourself part of the wheel group. That should solve a lot of your problems. On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 05:30, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi all, I have been using freebsd for my web/database/music server for a while and it has performed flawlessly. good good! However recently I installed freebsd on