On Tuesday 17 December 2002 22:04, Matt Stamm wrote:
Whoa, that was a mouth full. You lost me!
- First, I don't know what "setuid" is. Beleive it or not I can not find a definition in the SuSE Help.
You'll find information about this - it's to do with permissions - by looking at the manual page for the chmod command, or for suid itself. Type: man chmod in a text-console (see below) press h in the program and it'll tell you how to use it. try: man setuid or even: man man
- "mc" in text-console. What's that??
The text console is like a DOS window [1] where you can type commands directly. If you're using KDE then there's an icon with a shell covering a monitor screen - that will bring up a terminal window (which is effectively a text console[1, again]). Alternatively, if you press ctrl-alt-f1 you'll switch to a console full screen where you can log in again (as a different user, or the same one again) and use it there. mc is the command to start MidnightCommander which is a (?) Norton-like text mode file manager, just like Konqueror (or Windo$e Explorer). Try looking at the manpage for mc...
Sorry, as I said I'm a very "green" beginner with Linux.
As were we all, once. You are most welcome. [1] OK, OK, but we don't need to go there, eh? Dylan -- "Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not, we are Between the wars"