Re: [newbie] Problems while logged in as root

2000-02-09 Thread Harold Hartley
well, I run mandrake 7.0 and while as a regular user in mine and in X, I use the eterm to do other stuff... while using eterm, I just type su and then it ask for password and I enter it... when your done using su , you can type exit and it brings you back as a regular user where you started from..

[newbie] Problems while logged in as root (typo in previous post)

2000-02-05 Thread Michelle Schneider
On Sat, 05 Feb 2000, Michelle Schneider wrote: > Whenever I log in as root to do anything, after about 10 minutes (more or less) > everything locks up and the only thing I can do is ctrl-alt-backspace. It > happens regardless of which window manager I'm using. Although, it happens > sooner in KD