Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:08:24 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Killermink !" <killermink@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Permissions and other questions.. Message-ID: <4090F038.2070209@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <Sea1-F169y8U6nscaL80004ee5f@hotmail.com> References: <Sea1-F169y8U6nscaL80004ee5f@hotmail.com>
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Killermink ! wrote: > These may be immensly stupid questions, but here goes anyway, I have put > them all into one mail as I don't think they singularily deserve a whole > mail... For future reference, this is the wrong way to ask questions. In the future, put one question per email and you'll get more answers faster (and put a good subject line for each question) See: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > 1) Is it desirable and how do you enable certain processes to be run in > a user account? > > Here is why, I am the only user of my machine and while I realise the > importance of root, if i want to mount a cd I always have to su. This > is the same for other processes such as ifconfig. As the only user I > don't want to have to su all the time to do simple things, and as not > being used to it, I sometimes forget I have done so and do things > undesirable (e.,g. startx as root). You say "certain processes" and then you describe mounting drives. I'm going to assume that you're asking about mounting drives. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT > 2) Is there a way to automount? Like when I put in a CD or attach my > USB drive.. as they have the same command each time. Yes. Look in the ports for the automounter daemon. I think you actually have multiple choices. > 3) Is it possible to have the command prompt tell you what directory you > are in before the symbol? > > Like /usr/home/whoever# cd music > /usr/home/whoever/music# Certainly. But it depends on what shell you're using. If you're using bash or sh (for example) you can edit the .shrc file in your home directory and change the PS1= setting. This file has a useful example in it, and more information is available in the man pages. Other shells have different methods for setting the prompt. See the docs for the shell you're using. > 4) Is there a way in XFCE to create a launcher for OpenOffice? I > understand it needs to be run with ./soffice but this doesn't work even > tho I have added the directory to my PATH I'm sure there is, but I don't know xfce well enough to say what. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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