Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 21:07:42 +0000 () From: James Raynard <fqueries@parody.tecc.co.uk> To: Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com> Cc: "freebsd.questions" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ppp from shell, & starting X Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960103210052.203A-100000@parody.tecc.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951229205315.2927A-100000@panix.com>
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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'
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