On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 09:24:58PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Peter Christensen: > > I'm still learning about the basics of Linux, so please excuse a very > > basic question: If I want to access a CD do I need to add a line to > > /etc/fstab: > > > > /dev/cdrom /cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide > > > > and then under superuser type: > > > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom > > > > This is how I did it (I think!) before my hard drive crashed and I had > > to replace it. Now that I've reloaded Linux I can't edit /etc/fstab > > with emacs. Emacs works OK with a normal signon, but under SU I get the > > following messages: > > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > > emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0 > > check the display environment variable or use "-d" > > Also use the 'xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit > > connections from your machine > > > > So... two questions: Do I always need to type the full mount command, > > or is there a shortcut for this? And how can I get emacs to work under > > Superuser? > > It looks like your /etc/fstab is OK - you should be able to mount as a > normal user - try mount /cd. That's what the 'user' in the 4th column > means. As for the emacs problem, I'm out of my depth, at least without > some more information (and probably then as well) - but - are you doing > this in an X session? Are you running emacs or xemacs? This might help > to sort things out with someone who knows more about this. I'm pretty new > myself. > Good luck, > Steve when you open up normal emacs with DISPLAY variable set, it tries to create it's own window (and I repeat emacs, not Xmeacs). So you just have to figure out how to allow root from su session to conncet to xserver. look at xhost as advised. <lame joke> and after you are sufficiently frustarated with Eight Megs And Continuously Swapping , you cay try vim :-) (no flames plz, it's just a joke, OK?) </lame joke> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -- GPG key-id: 1024D/5BE3DCFD Dmitriy CCAB 5F17 A099 9E43 1DBE 295C 9A21 2F1C 5BE3 DCFD Adobe put Dmitry in jail for the crime against society of revealing that they were selling ROT-13 as "encryption." He is rotting in US prison as a political prisoner for speaking out. Free Dmitry Sklyarov! http://www.freesklyarov.org
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