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hermouche 09-08-2005 01:58 AM

Why as a root.....
 
Hello

Why as a root and GUI i can't see my " /proc " , and in text mode i do not have this problem!!!

As a user ido not have this problem either.

Appreciate Thanks.

Mega Man X 09-08-2005 02:05 AM

Re: Why as a root.....
 
Quote:

Originally posted by hermouche
Hello

Why as a root and GUI i can't see my " /proc " , and in text mode i do not have this problem!!!

As a user ido not have this problem either.

Appreciate Thanks.

I am not sure why, but... you should never really login as root and start the gui anyway. Besides being a huge security risk and quite unnecessary too, a few applications won't let you run them as root. If you ever need to do administrations tasks, be it changing a password or editing a config file, use "su" at the terminal...


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