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 called

[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

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

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 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 should kill the

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? Hey, I've got the same

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 file. All