Re: Commands

[Adam Heath <adam@brainiac.egr.msu.edu>]

On Sun, 25 Jan 1998, Matt Thompson wrote:

> Hi, y'all,
> 
> Ok, I've been poring over the HOWTO's and man-pages and can't find two
> little commands THAT I USED TO KNOW! :)
> 
> A friend told me about these a while back and now I can't remember or find
> them.  One is the command executed by root on a kernel to make it look at
> a certain partition, allowing it to be used as a boot-floppy image.  The
> other is the command that I use as mattyt so that, as root, I can run make
> xconfig.  It allows root (or any other user, I suppose) access to the
> X-server, when you're not logged in to XDM as that user.

RDEV, first, then either su, sudo, or secure-su.



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