Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:24:49 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X question Message-ID: <19990113002449.A94530@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990110150928.dh@enter.net>; from Daniel Hauer on Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 03:09:28PM -0500 References: <XFMail.990110150928.dh@enter.net>
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According to Daniel Hauer: > 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? I haven't tried sudo recently to say but my own equivalent, named Calife[1], doesn't have this problem. It will ask you for your password then fork a shell with the new uid (generally root). ----- [1] <http://mutt.frmug.org/calife/>; -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #67: Tue Dec 29 20:24:02 CET 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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