sysvinit editor problem SLACK81

ocularbob · 03-18-2003, 10:30 PM

So ive finnally decide to go slack after running suse for a while now.
I'm tryin to run "SysV-init Editor" but it tells me I don't have perms.
to edit. I get this error both as root and as "user" after the root pass prompt. Any ideas? thanks

Aussie · 03-19-2003, 02:45 AM

Did you "su" to root?
If you did try "su -".

ocularbob · 03-19-2003, 09:07 AM

When I ran SysV-init Editior from KDE as a non-root user it asked for a pass, then i got the error. So i logged out and back into KDE
as root and the result was the same.
I suppose i should just learn to set up the rc scripts by hand.
I did "su -" and now my prompt looks like "root@bigblack:~#"
before it was "bash2.05a#". Any way to make this change global and what is the difference? I said "ksysv" and got "ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Can't determine DISPLAY. Aborting."

thanks

Aussie · 03-19-2003, 02:15 PM

It's not a big problem in slackware because slack uses a BSD style of system init, although it is SysV compatable, have a poke around in /etc/rc.d.
What exactly was it you wanted to change?

ocularbob · 03-19-2003, 02:24 PM

i just got it, thanks atalkd is running and i'm now booting right to init 4. cool. But i noticed that Mozilla didn't remember the bookmarks i made and kmail has a similar problem. I think i have a few permission problems to locate.
What group settings should my user have?
thanks again