On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:54:18 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:29:09 +1200 > >Joel Peter William Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>On 9/26/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Steve Lamb wrote: > >>> > >>> > >[snip] [snip] > > > And when you need to run an X app? Ah, gotta muck around > with Xauthority files now. Actually, no. This does the trick: $ su -c Someone on this list told me about it a couple of years ago. > And when you've got several xterms open, and only one of > which is logged in as root, and you're switching back and > forth and forget which one you're in when you type that "rm > -rf" command? Sure, you can change your root prompt to be > red and flashing, to help avoid this, but I'd prefer to > intentionally do the extra step of typing sudo to prevent > this sort of mishap. Well, yes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
