On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 14:29 +0000, Stuart Sears wrote: > On Saturday 26 March 2005 14:24, Mark Nixon wrote: > > Just tried it ctl-alt-4, and it says "command not found". As a a > > matter of fact, commands like "ifconfig" only work for me in an > > xterm. I guess I'll try it in an xterm, and log in again. > Are you running these commands as root? > and if so, how do you become root? direct login or su? > if you use su, you should use the command 'su -' or you won't inherit > root's PATH settings - the 'init' command is in /sbin which is not in > any normal user's PATH. > alternatively, try giving the full path to hte command you wish to run: > /sbin/init 3<enter> > <enter> > /sbin/init 5; exit<enter> > > > Sorry if I sound ignorant, but my experience is mostly with DOS, OS/2 > > and WIN. And I google and man the hell out of my questions. > nope, everybody has to learn sometimes. As you will be discovering, many > things are *very* different under the bonnet with a Linux-based system. You got that right. To think I was an OS/2 superuser (-: Anyway, I did what you said, and everything went swimmingly, until the system tried to start anacron, and the earth stood still for half an hour. I didn't feel like waiting anymore, so I did a hard reset. Anacron is installed, and running, so I don't know what the problem is. I'm getting to the point where I think I'll just let it slide. I just hate when things don't work, and I don't know *why* or *how*. If one doesn't know how or why, then things can't be fixed or replicated. Thanks a lot for your help. Maybe I'll just wait for the Fedora 4.0 release to see if it fixes things. Anyway, it's all probably my fault, as I updated KDE from 3.1 to 3.2 without reading the caveat about themer. That's when the graphical greeter became FUBAR. Mark
