Oops! (Re: Repair Grub Files?)

[Shawn McCuan]

Ahh....so it *does* work....:) lol

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 10:55 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007 20:25:38 -0400
> Shawn McCuan <smccuan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I would just use:
> > 
> > sudo su
> > kate /boot/grub/menu.lst
> 
> Just correcting my previous post -apparently this *does* work - although I
> frankly don't understand why.... 
> 
> I would still use
> 
> kdesu kate "/boot/grub/menu.lst"
> 
> for preference. Perhaps someone can explain how running an X app as root
> ( sudo su) works in this situation - normally I would expect the X server
> to refuse connections from root in another user's X session  ( ??? )
> 
> Peter
>