On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:31:08AM +0100, Danielb wrote: > Hi, > > I've just started to use Fedora and I must say its the only > Linux distro I've tried with a GUI thats felt as slick as > WinXP and MasOC X so well done on that! I usually try to > install and use *nix (tried SUSE, Mandrake & FreeBSD so > far)on my spare PC every 9 months or so but give up in > frustration shortly afterwords when I try and get things > configured. Fedora seems to be allot nicer to get set-up > and running though, so things are looking good! > > I'm still having some problems getting my apache/mysql > installation going, its mainly things like how to be able > to copy files (myphpadmin to be exact) in the file > browser(explorer/finder like app) without having to log in > as SU/root, I know how to use SU in a terminal but how do I > do it in the file browser? Also can anyone tell me the > terminal copy command for copying a directory and its > contents (files & folders) to another location? cp -a oldir newlocation (will copy oldir contents into newlocation/olddir, use oldir/* if you want the contents to be in newlocation/ instead)
