On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 15:17 -0500, Thomas W. Cranston wrote: > I went over my notes and discovered that they were not as complete as > needed to be. As a result I decided to reinstall FC3, and get a fresh start. > > I first used the network configuration application to configure the > dialup. This time the modem came up as ttyS4. Sounds like progress :-) > I got mesage:Cannot activate network device xxxxxxxx Failed to activate > xxxxxxx with error 8 > > Logged on yyyyyy@localhost, I opened a terminal and entered the command > tail -f /var/log/messages, and got cannot open tail -f /var/log/messages > for reading: Permission denied > > Someone suggested that I log on to a terminal as Su_-. I entered Su_- at > the command line and got: bash:Su_- command not found > > Did they mean that I reboot, and enter Su_- at user name prompt? > > How and where do I invoke Su_-? They probably said to enter the command "su -" to become root, not "Su -". > I understand that it is not wise to make changes to wvdial logged on as > root! Using "su" like this is the same as being root. It's probably worth trying to run "wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf" as root to see if things work better now. > I then entered: /etc/wvdial.conf , and got: > bash: /etc/wvdial.conf: Permission denied > /etc/wvdial.conf > How can I execute the command /etc/wvdial.conf with out getting > permission denied? I am assuming that since that I am logged on as > root@localhost that I would have the permission. /etc/wvdial.conf is a configuration file, not a program you can run. It should get set up if you run wvdialconf as described above. > Is there a way to log onto a terminal as super user, while I am logged > on as xxxx@localhost? Yes, use "su -" as mentioned above. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
