Root is the super-ultra-mega. All system commands on a Linux box need to be run as root. This means installing software and changing files not in your /home directory, etc. In your terminal, if you're logged in already, become root by typing su at your $ prompt, then the root password. Log in the system directly as root from a login prompt, but not the graphical login. # shows root.
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Even for an administration dedicated to putting industry lobbyists in charge of the very agencies they have devoted their careers to undermining (coal and oil lobbyist J. Stephen Griles as Deputy Secretary of the Interior is one of dozens of...
Bush Names Exxon Chief to Chart America’s Energy Future
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Evangelicals Embrace of Environmental Stewardship Creates Problem for Bush
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Bush Free Trade Plan Puts Amazon up for Grabs
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Former Skeptics Call for Action on Warming – Bush Silent
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EPA Allows Dumping in Chesapeake and Shenandoah River
NOTE: Today's Washington Post story, Male Bass Across Region Found to Be Bearing Eggs, suggests that serious water pollution is affecting the entire Potomac river basin not just the Shenandoah river tributary described in the piece below. This underscores the...
Big Oil’s Royalty Rip Off Costs Billions
As you fill your tank today at $3.00-and-counting per gallon or contemplate this coming winter’s heating bills, consider this: Big Oil is making even more money than you know. Not just from the obscenely high price of gasoline, but from...
Toxic Trains - Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You
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Administration Again Pushing Anti-Environmental Court Nominee
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White House, GOP Leaders Plan All-Out Assault on Federal Protections
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College Republicans Call for Beach Parties to Mock Global Warming
[The piece below was published this week by syndicated columnist Ed Flattau of Global Horizons] Whatever happened to the Republican Party of Teddy Roosevelt, a political party distinguished by its forward-looking environmental policy? Today, we have the College Republican National...
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