Re: RedHat 6.1 so far. (fwd)

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > Yesterday, I updated RH6.0 on a pentium 166 and had no immediate problems
> > > but when I tried to use linuxconf and control-panel, neither would come
> > > up. I saved the diagnostic error messages returned if anyone is
> > > interested.
> >
> > That could be the standard error of not setting $DISPLAY correctly,
> > and/or not "xhost"ing your display for root after a "su" command.
> >
> > Please post the error messages and we'll see . . .
> 
> See the attachment.

Yup, it looks like you need to use the "xhost" command to
open up authorization on your X server for localhost before
running linuxconf (run as the user who signed on).  i.e.:

  xhost +localhost.

That's not a 6.1 bug, and not an bug at all.
6.0 was also setup that way.

> PS let me know if the imbedded formatting controls make the message
> appear with 'root' in red.  If not, I'll omit them in the future.

Nope, they appear as garbage on my mail reader.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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