From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 13:35:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C53F41065673 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:35:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A86548FC12 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:35:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.35]) by QMTA04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id gzLB1a00B0lTkoCA41b8V3; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:35:08 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id h1b61a00T2P6wsM8Q1b6UG; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:35:07 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=nFo0Jy40vJYUrc8LrDwA:9 a=mCfpUxIlx7T0fUUQ0C7NJFwksPUA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8AB8633C36; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:35:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:35:06 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Paul Cartwright Message-ID: <20081119133506.GA87794@icarus.home.lan> References: <200811190816.37009.ale@pcartwright.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200811190816.37009.ale@pcartwright.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newb questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:35:08 -0000 On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:16:36AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > 1. when I run startx it auto logs me in on a minimal gui ( twm?). I installed > gnome, I think, and want to log in using gnome, how do I change that? > > 2. I cannot su - to root, it says sorry. pam_group didn't seem like the > answer, or I didn't read it right. How can I su to root from my account? > Is there anything special to able to do that from ssh? I can't answer question #1. As for #2, you need to add your username to the "wheel" group in /etc/group. That's all. (You will have to log out then back in for the changes to take effect) > 3. the boot loader... This server has 2 drives, and I already had w2k server > on drive 1, and ubuntu-server on drive 2. when I boot, I now get options for > F2-DOS ( win2k boots) and F5 disk0/1. I can't seem to find any option for my > ubuntu OS. Is there a way to change that bootloader option to > add /dev/sdb6-ubuntu? I think boot0cfg is the tool you'll want to use for this. I've never been in this situation, so I don't have a command to give you. You can use boot0cfg -v (e.g. boot0cfg -v ad0) to get information about the boot0 configuration. > maybe I was looking in the wrong documentation, if any/all of this is in the > docs, which one? the handbook? Yes. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |