On Wednesday 10 August 2005 7:39 pm, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Ingo Strauch wrote:
as root there is no problem whatsoever. And as somebody already pointed out one can easily use "sax" in a terminal and start the few programs that really require root priviledges from there. I really wouldn't recommend using browsers, mailers, chat clients, P2P software, ..., as root!
I fully understand that. But I'm finding it difficult adjusting to all the commands and keyboard shortcuts that are showered on me:
su sux sax kdesu sudo Ctrl+Alt+F1 Alt+F2 etc etc etc.
I feel your pain <g>. Been there, done that. It's a huge initial learning curve to climb, but it really is worth it in the end. My suggestion is keep it simple, stick to kdesu if you need to run a graphical app as root ( I find I am using 'kdesu kate' a lot myself since I hate vi and mcedit is too limiting for me). Use su if you simply need to switch to root at the commandline to accomplish something, like an RPM install. Learn a few of the essential commandline commands and you should be set, the rest will come with experience. It may seem overwhelming now, but trust me, it really will be worth the initial pain. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-21.8-default x86_64 SuSE Linux 9.3 (x86-64)