[CS-FSLUG] Boss of files!

[Ruth Marlene Friesen]

Thanks again!
You are really bringing me along now.

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>Somehow I need to find out how I can open a file and let it know that 
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>>AM the root user. (Colour me a Newbie!) Any tip for that? :)
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>I can give you a lot of those, but I would like to know: How do you 
>usually edit /etc/modules.conf? What program do you use to edit it?
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KWrite, is the one I tried.

>Let's say that you use KWrite to edit /etc/modules.conf. In that case, 
>you're pretty right, you need to tell the system who's the boss! In 
>order to do so, invoke again the famous ALT+F2 command-line dialog 
>(isn't it handy??) and when there, type the following:
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>kdesu kwrite /etc/modules.conf
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>After clicking "Run" or "OK", a dialog box will appear asking for your 
>root password. Type the password and click "OK". After that, the KWrite 
>editor will appear with /etc/modules.conf, which you may edit to your 
>heart's content, *and* will let you save it. (Just be careful, 
>remember, you're root now! If you messed something up, just don't save, 
>and repeat the whole procedure again).
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Super! I WILL try that.

>The works behind the tip:
>You're using the 'kdesu' utility. This is an utility that lets you run a 
>graphical program as root. When you typed:
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>kdesu kwrite /etc/modules.conf
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>in the command line, then you told kdesu that you wanted to run 
>'kwrite /etc/modules.conf' as root. That is, the 'kwrite' program which 
>will edit the '/etc/modules.conf' file.
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>Write me back to see if this worked.
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Okay, but I have a publishing deadline again tonight, and it usually 
takes me to midnight, so I'll have to save it, or else sneak time from 
my supper break.

>Now, back to where we've been... do you have a LCD screen or the more 
>conventional, CRT (TV-like) type?
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I guess it's the conventional CRT type. Got it in '99, and I believe 
those flat-screen monitors came out after, or were/are too expensive  
for me. :)