Re: [newbie] How to overwrite a file if not root?]

2000-09-26 Thread Altoine Barker
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 cal

Re: [newbie] How to overwrite a file if not root?

2000-09-10 Thread Paul
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: >> I had this problem and I just put imwheel -k in roots >> bash logout file in root's home directory. Not pretty >> I guess but it works. >> >> Dacia > >I thought there would be solution like that. How exactly do you do that. I >found roots bash logout

Re: [newbie] How to overwrite a file if not root?

2000-09-10 Thread Jeff Malka
Thank you. Just what I needed. Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Abe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 7:47 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] How to overwrite a file if not root?

RE: [newbie] How to overwrite a file if not root?

2000-09-10 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
right on Bro. Dacia --- Abe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, I've got the same thing set up. Here's the > steps: > > 1. become root > 2. in roots home directory open the file > ~/.bash_logout with the text editor > of your choice > 3. add the line imwheel -k > 4. save the file > > This shou

RE: [newbie] How to overwrite a file if not root?

2000-09-10 Thread Abe
Hey, I've got the same thing set up. Here's the steps: 1. become root 2. in roots home directory open the file ~/.bash_logout with the text editor of your choice 3. add the line imwheel -k 4. save the file This should kill the imwheel process that belongs to root as you log out of root which

Re: [newbie] How to overwrite a file if not root?

2000-09-10 Thread Jeff Malka
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: >

Re: [newbie] How to overwrite a file if not root?

2000-09-10 Thread Jeff Malka
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote: > I had this problem and I just put imwheel -k in roots > bash logout file in root's home directory. Not pretty > I guess but it works. > > Dacia I thought there would be solution like that. How exactly do you do that. I found roots bash logout file. All it c

Re: [newbie] How to overwrite a file if not root?

2000-09-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
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, w

Re: [newbie] How to overwrite a file if not root?

2000-09-10 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
I had this problem and I just put imwheel -k in roots bash logout file in root's home directory. Not pretty I guess but it works. Dacia --- Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is very basic but I am having trouble figuring > it out. > > There is a program called imwheel that produces a

[newbie] How to overwrite a file if not root?

2000-09-10 Thread Jeff Malka
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 c