From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 26 0:25:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F9C37BB6B for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 00:25:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-207.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.207] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA12805; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:24:35 +1000 From: Danny To: root , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: permission denied Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:28:30 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <39069687.DD3D7535@connection.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00042717305400.00618@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Firstly, You should not use X Windows as Root. Unless you like the idea of having the name "Charile Root" when you send people emails You should always use "su" or "sudo". when you want to do somehting in BSD than requires the super user. On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, root wrote: > Hi, > > No matter what form of Unix I use, I get 'permission denied' logged in > as root. > But if I use a file manager to access the same thing, I can. > All I have for FreeBSD is Xterm and I'm trying to compile the kernel. > How do I solve this problem??? > I've tried every form of Linux and Solaris7 and have the same problem. > Is it in how the installation is done? Am I missing something along the > way??? > > Please help. I got the get away from Windows. > > > Harv > lord@connection.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message