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Re: Hurray

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Andrew Falanga wrote:

> 1)    How do I set up more virtual consoles?  Just in case I've missused
> a term, what I want to know is, how do I set up more consoles so that I
> can <alt>+<Fx> to another vertual terminal?

   On i386, look at /etc/ttys, and try using contral-alt-f2.


> 2)    How do I setup the command line history to allow me to uparrow
> scroll through the commands given in history?

   Are you using 2.6?  Isn't emacs mode (Control-P, Control-N) enabled by
default?


> 4)    Sorry, one last question.  How does one make a user able to use
> the su command?  I thought that users part of group wheel could, and I
> made myself part of wheel but I couldn't use su.  Come to think of it, I
> might not have added myself properly.  During useradd, I made myself an
> account and said that it was part of the login group wheel.  I thought
> that would do, but evidently not.

   Did you read the afterboot man page?  The su man page?

   Adam