[CS-FSLUG] Boss of files!

[Eduardo Sanchez]

Ruth,

No problem. Just write me back when you think it's ok. There's no hurry 
at all :)

Blessings,

Eduardo

On Wednesday 08 September 2004 18:09, Ruth Marlene Friesen wrote:
> Thanks again!
> You are really bringing me along now.
> 
> >> <>
> >
> >Somehow I need to find out how I can open a file and let it know that 
> >  
> >
> >I 
> >  
> >
> >>AM the root user. (Colour me a Newbie!) Any tip for that? :)
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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?
> >  
> >
> 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:
> >
> >kdesu kwrite /etc/modules.conf
> >
> >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).
> >
> >  
> >
> 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:
> >
> >kdesu kwrite /etc/modules.conf
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Write me back to see if this worked.
> >  
> >
> 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?
> >  
> >
> 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. :)
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
Prof. Eduardo Sanchez
Asuncion, Paraguay, South America
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