From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 15:46:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA07181 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 15:46:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from parody.tecc.co.uk (parody.tecc.co.uk [193.128.6.83]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA07161 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 15:46:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by parody.tecc.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA01384; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 21:07:42 GMT Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 21:07:42 +0000 () From: James Raynard To: Barry Masterson cc: "freebsd.questions" Subject: Re: ppp from shell, & starting X In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, Barry Masterson wrote: [First question elided] > My second question has to do with running ppp from Xwindows. Currently > I have the ppp files in /usr/sbin, so, to run ppp, I run it as root. > Not a problem from the shell, I've got all of those vc's. > > However, I want to run X, ppp & netscape as a normal user. (ppp & netscape > work fine if I startx as root). > > Question 2: Can I simply place the ppp files: > > /usr/sbin > -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 86016 Nov 16 04:57 ppp > -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 61440 Nov 16 04:57 pppd > -r-xr-sr-x 1 bin kmem 12288 Nov 16 04:57 pppstats > > in my ~/home/bin directory, and expect it to run without any complaints. Possibly, but you really don't need to do this. Just start X as yourself and then get a root xterm (type 'su -' at the command prompt in an xterm and enter the root password when prompted). This will come in useful for any other admin-related tasks you may need/wish to perform while running X. James Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'