On Friday 31 January 2003 14:13, Doug Weeks wrote:

Tried to use kate as root but the suse way: sh kate (as root) or ./kate didnt work. Had to use file manage-superuser mode and it didnt let me edit the /etc/fstab file. How do you open kate as root if not by the 2 commands above which I found in the manual!

Did you try simply kate? That should do it. Otherwise you could use midnight commander in a root console - it's a file manager with a perfectly servicable text editor built in. Or just right click on the file in the superuser filemanager and chose from Open with... Since the filemanager is root, the editor it calls will also be root.

BTW, do the <space> make the post easier to read?

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Alexandr Malusek wrote:

Doug Weeks writes:

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Tried to use kate as root but the suse way: sh kate (as root) or ./kate didnt work. Had to use file manage-superuser mode and it didnt let me edit the /etc/fstab file. How do you open kate as root if not by the 2 commands above which I found in the manual! <

I used th online SuSe help menu and did a search on root. This is the 8.1 pro distro Suse help>"search" root then link on "root cannot execute certain commands" is where I got this. I was used to just typing in the command after su'ing as root in Mandrake so this was a bit confusing. Guess I have to open superuser file manager then open with right click on the file to get others???

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In which manual? The manual should be fixed, these commands are wrong.

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