Despite appearing rather complex at first glance, the Linux terminal is a nifty tool for most tasks, be it installing new packages or troubleshooting the most obscure errors. That said, enabling root ...

A friend of mine told me that running X as root can end up messing up a lot of stuff on a linux box. Granted, I know when I am simply running X to do whatever mundane user tasks I need to, I use my ...

I need to run a command as root that copies a bunch of files around, stops a process, restarts the process, deletes some things, and copies some other things around.<BR><BR>I'd like my boss to just ...