On Oct 3, 2004 at 23:51, Paul C D Dann in a soothing rage wrote: >On Sunday 03 Oct 2004 13:16, ne... wrote: >> On Oct 3, 2004 at 00:38, Paul C D Dann in a soothing rage wrote: >> [...] >> >> >When logged on as rootwhen logged on as root, there was no "man service" >> >file, but the service command worked . Having used chkdsk, Samba started >> > on reboot so I no longer had a problem. >> >> There is a difference between 'su -', which gives you root's full >> environment, and 'su', which gives you some of root's priviledges. >Now where ought I have looked for that very valuable snippet? I have been >using Linux since RH7.0 - any rage has been totally soothed. Thanks anyway. Believe it or not - 'man su' N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 The 80's -- when you can't tell hairstyles from chemotherapy. 07:43:58 up 98 days, 58 min, 5 users, load average: 0.06, 0.01, 0.00