From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 10 13:14:24 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14371 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 13:14:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quartz.nbnet.nb.ca (mailserv.nbnet.nb.ca [198.164.200.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14366 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 13:14:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marco@nbnet.nb.ca) Received: from fedrac.nbtel.net ([198.164.220.57]) by quartz.nbnet.nb.ca (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO203-101c) ID# 607-54382U75000L75000S0V35) with ESMTP id AAA29010; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:13:47 -0400 Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:58:43 +0000 ( ) From: Marco Shaw X-Sender: marco@fedrac.nbtel.net To: Amelia Hauer cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: X question In-Reply-To: <000601be3cdd$7b3bace0$0400a8c0@dh.athome.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are you typing 'su -' or 'su'? The latter is what you want to use. Marco > Quick question., I'm no "X" expert. When I open an xterm, and then su to > root in it to run an app as root, (cvsup for example) I get an "unable to > open > display localhost:0" error message. What have I missed? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message