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Re: netcfg ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Mon Oct 21 18:45:44 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:52:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
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On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Todd Weible wrote:
>
> I have the same problem. So if I actually log in and startx from root I
> would have this problem as well being that this would be similar to su - ?
>
> I'll try you idea, thanks to both of you for question and skirt :)
The problem is that your DISPLAY environment variable is not carried over
when you do an 'su -'... If you 'su -', then 'export DISPLAY=:0.0' netcfg
and all other X programs should work from that root session.
-- Elliot
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