From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 17 02:35:53 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA27884 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 02:35:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sliver.eddie.silk.net (eddie.silk.net [204.244.76.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA27878 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 02:35:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eddie@silk.net) Received: from localhost (eddie@localhost) by sliver.eddie.silk.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAA91001; Sun, 17 Jan 1999 02:45:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eddie@silk.net) X-Authentication-Warning: sliver.eddie.silk.net: eddie owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 02:45:23 -0800 (PST) From: Eddie Lawhead X-Sender: eddie@localhost To: Kevin Weiss cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: permission denied in root? (compiling kernel) In-Reply-To: <199901171020.CAA26870@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Kevin Weiss wrote: > Hello all! > > I finally got X windows working (twm is kinda boring to the eye though)! > > Anyway...I am trying to rebuild my kernel...When I get to the point where > I need to put the following (in root): > > /usr/sbin config MY_KERNEL_NAME ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ > > I get: > > /usr/sbin : permission denied > Is that space a typo? Shouldn't that be /usr/sbin/config MY_KERNEL_NAME ? If you are not sure if you are root type whoami at the prompt. > My root prompt looks like..."mail#". I already set my self in the wheel > group > also. Anyone know how to fix this? > > Kevin Weiss > kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu > > PS - Thanx! :-) > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Eddie H. Lawhead FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Kelowna, BC, Canada http://www.FreeBSD.org eddie@silk.net http://www.Silk.net ---------------------------------------------------- | Silk Internet: Your Smooth Connection To The Net | ----------------------------------------------------- =-=-=-=-=-=-= Enriched, V-Card, HTML Messages > /dev/null =-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message