From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 25 9:56:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from math.udel.edu (math.udel.edu [128.175.16.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98C0837B8CD for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:56:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from schwenk@math.udel.edu) Received: from math.udel.edu (sisyphus.math.udel.edu [128.175.16.167]) by math.udel.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA07504; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:56:36 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38B6C253.B565E229@math.udel.edu> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:56:35 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: University of Delaware X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, de, ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Fred J. Lomas" Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: ports References: <38B6BF75.F9F8CF67@8hill.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can't su to root unless you are in the 'wheel' group. To add yourself to the group, edit the /etc/group file and add yourself. You need to be root to edit /etc/group. As far as ports, I'm assuming you mean the ported software that you can build via the Makefiles in /usr/ports. You first need to build and install the port using the 'make && make install' command. You will also need either the 3rd & 4th CDs from the Walnut Creek CD set or access to the internet to build the ports because the ports mechanism downloads the source code from one of those places. Hope this helps. "Fred J. Lomas" wrote: > Hi, > I am a newbie to BSD and I have just installed 3.3 as a dual > boot that all works fine. I ma having trouble with ports trying to ge > them to run , I get permission denied and I am logged in as root or they > just don't run even if I go into my user account I get the same thing > what am I doing wrong?? also I want to be able to su to root from my > user account but is says that Im not in the right group to do that... > > Aj > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message