From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 29 05:34:42 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 8A99E16A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:34:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk (yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB5BE43D1D for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:34:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rtb27@cam.ac.uk) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=rtb27.robinson.cam.ac.uk) by yellow.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1BJAkS-0001ja-00; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:34:40 +0100 From: Richard Bradley To: killermink@hotmail.com Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:33:11 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200404291333.11890.rtb27@cam.ac.uk> 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 12:34:42 -0000 > These may be immensly stupid questions, but here goes anyway, I have put= =20 > them all into one mail as I don't think they singularily deserve a whole= =20 > mail... I don't know about stupid - these are quite sensible questions. Lazy perhap= s=20 =2D- most of these can be answered by google (or by experimentation). > 1) Is it desirable and how do you enable certain processes to be run in a= =20 > user account? You can use `su` as root - in fact you can su into any account without usin= g a=20 password, such is the power of root ;-) > Here is why, I am the only user of my machine and while I realise the=20 > importance of root, if i want to mount a cd I always have to su. =A0This = is=20 > the same for other processes such as ifconfig. =A0As the only user I don'= t=20 > want to have to su all the time to do simple things, and as not being use= d=20 > to it, I sometimes forget I have done so and do things undesirable (e.,g.= =20 > startx as root). How often do you need to run ifconfig? If you manage to get automount worki= ng=20 (see below) you should have no excuse not to run as a normal user > 2) Is there a way to automount? =A0Like when I put in a CD or attach my U= SB > drive.. as they have the same command each time. umm - I'm not going to answer this one. The simple answer is that the very= =20 first result for a google search on "automount freebsd" gives a detailed=20 tutorial on how to set this up on a FreeBSD box. Searching is quicker than= =20 waiting for email replies, you know. > 3) Is it possible to have the command prompt tell you what directory you = are > in before the symbol? Again, the first result on google for "change prompt string csh" is a long= =20 tutorial on changing the title bar of xterms or something. Anyway, I skimme= d=20 through it and to get you started, at your console, type: alias precmd 'echo -n "$cwd"' You should be able to customise this to suit your own needs. > 4) Is there a way in XFCE to create a launcher for OpenOffice? =A0I under= stand > it needs to be run with ./soffice but this doesn't work even tho I have=20 > added the directory to my PATH I don't even know what XFCE is, so try Google for this one, or wait for=20 someone on the mailing list to try Google for you ;-) > Thanks for the advice... Have fun! Rich