From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 29 05:10:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB4BC16A4CF for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:10:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C9C443D62 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:10:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE20A69A81; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:10:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4090F038.2070209@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:08:24 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040422 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Killermink !" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Permissions and other questions.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:10:50 -0000 Killermink ! wrote: > These may be immensly stupid questions, but here goes anyway, I have put > them all into one mail as I don't think they singularily deserve a whole > mail... For future reference, this is the wrong way to ask questions. In the future, put one question per email and you'll get more answers faster (and put a good subject line for each question) See: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > 1) Is it desirable and how do you enable certain processes to be run in > a user account? > > Here is why, I am the only user of my machine and while I realise the > importance of root, if i want to mount a cd I always have to su. This > is the same for other processes such as ifconfig. As the only user I > don't want to have to su all the time to do simple things, and as not > being used to it, I sometimes forget I have done so and do things > undesirable (e.,g. startx as root). You say "certain processes" and then you describe mounting drives. I'm going to assume that you're asking about mounting drives. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT > 2) Is there a way to automount? Like when I put in a CD or attach my > USB drive.. as they have the same command each time. Yes. Look in the ports for the automounter daemon. I think you actually have multiple choices. > 3) Is it possible to have the command prompt tell you what directory you > are in before the symbol? > > Like /usr/home/whoever# cd music > /usr/home/whoever/music# Certainly. But it depends on what shell you're using. If you're using bash or sh (for example) you can edit the .shrc file in your home directory and change the PS1= setting. This file has a useful example in it, and more information is available in the man pages. Other shells have different methods for setting the prompt. See the docs for the shell you're using. > 4) Is there a way in XFCE to create a launcher for OpenOffice? I > understand it needs to be run with ./soffice but this doesn't work even > tho I have added the directory to my PATH I'm sure there is, but I don't know xfce well enough to say what. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com