[wellylug] repository timed out issues

[Sebastian]

kia ora, koutou..

* Steve Macdonald <steve at twininstallations.co.nz> [2006-06-24 11:42 +1200]:

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> A couple of other quick questions if I may. every so often the display comes 
> up say display on in a grey box, how do I get rid of that happening? 

you mean that your monitor pops up with a message 'display on'? perhaps
there is a loose connexion in its power supply or graphics card? dunno.


> and also 
> I had to create a folder in usr/shared but without root rights I cant. I dont 
> know how to get root rights to do simple things like that.

there are numerous ways, depending on your setup:
- in the menu of your desktop, there might be an item called 'root
  shell' which asks for root's password and gives you a shell then. in
  the shell, you can 'mkdir /usr/share/yourdir'.
- in a shell, type 'su -' and then type the root password. this will
  give you a root shell.
- switch to the text console, usually ctrl+alt+f1 and log in as root.
  usually, you get back to X11 (and your desktop environment) with
  ctrl+alt+f7.
- there might be 'sudo' in effect: 'sudo bash', followed by the input of
  your user's password gives you a root shell. or just 'sudo mkdir
  /usr/share/yourdir' (followed by user's password) to create the
  directory.
- there might be other ways, i cannot fancy at the moment.

also, you might want to change the access rights of the newly created
directory with something like 'chmod 777 /usr/share/yourdir' or change
its owner/group to your user, e.g. 'chown user /usr/share/yourdir'.

for all these commands, see the man pages: man su, man sudo, man chmod,
man chown.

hth,
 Sebastian

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