Am Mi, den 14.01.2004 schrieb John Li um 16:54: > I am having trouble running a program from the command line > after I login as root and switch to a user account with su. > > For example, after logging in as root, I want to get info off the > web, but all my links are stored in my user account. > So, I open a terminal, type > su -l username > and then type > mozilla > Nothing happens, even when I specify the full path '/usr/bin/mozilla'. > > Is there anything I can do to get around this? > > John Hi John, it is just as the X server prohibits to be connected. You should see a message like $ gnome-terminal Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified (gnome-terminal:31609): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: By default in Fedora X server is set to "-nolisten tcp". You can change that in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf by setting DisallowTCP=true -> false. After X restart and trying what you want to achieve you have to also set "xhost +localhost". You can set that line for automatically be executed in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. Alexander I hope you are running X as normal user and switch to root only by opening a terminal and calling "su -" in it. Easiest way to get an additional user console would be to open a new terminal. Never ever run X as root! -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
