Jeff, sorry about taking so long to reply but I had alot of backup. change the owner of the imwheel.pid to imwheel. That should solve it. --Al Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail
