[lug] Using consoles

[PC Drew]

Not sure about your actual question, but I can answer you one thing.  To
start up all of the "root" properties, using su, do "su -".  Secondly...why
aren't you using sudo?  It's mo' betta.

PC Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
Behalf Of David Outteridge
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 9:42 AM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: [lug] Using consoles


Yesterday, whilst logged in as myself, I wanted to log in as root.
Normally I would use su, but this time I did not know how to start up
all the stuff I needed so I wanted to log in from the login prompt.  I
used C-A-f2 and got a login prompt.  The login was ok.  But when I
tried to start X it did not work for the reason that display 0 was
already in use.  Can anyone explain this a little, please?  How do I
do it?  Can it be done?

dajo

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