Re: Fw: 2 ?

["a" <softguy@citiz.net>]

Thanks!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Watson" <cjwatson@debian.org>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: 2 ?


> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 03:25:18PM +0800, a wrote:
>
> [reformatted to have replies below the text they're replying to]
>
> > From: "dman" <dsh8290@rit.edu>
> > > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:48:54AM +0800, a wrote:
> > > | i can play real media as root but can't play it as a usual user.
> > > | how to assign access to other users?
> > >
> > > Is there an error message?  Such as "/dev/dsp : permission denied"?
> >
> >  yes it said: permission denied
>
> Add yourself to the audio group ('adduser yourusername audio'), then log
> out and back in.
>
> > > | in Redhat, man pages can be scrolled back. how to do it in Debian
2.1
> > >
> > > This is a feature (or lack thereof) of your pager.  I recommend using
> > > 'update-alternatives --config pager' to make "less" the system's
> > > default pager.  Alternatively you can just set PAGER=less in your
> > > ~/.bashrc.
> >
> >  I add PAGER=less to .bashrc but it does not help
>
> You need to 'export PAGER' as well to turn that from a shell variable
> into a real environment variable. The two commands can be abbreviated to
> 'export PAGER=less'.
>
> Personally I'd just use the first solution dman proposed, though
> ('update-alternatives --config pager').
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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