[Xastir] More Xastir questions.

[Curt Mills]

On Sun, 9 May 2004, KK6RW wrote:

> Another user also sent a message indicating I needed to go to the root user
> or "su" however that did not solve the problems.

The reason is that you're on Cygwin, not on a Unix or Unix-like
system.  You don't have anything resembling the root user.  You're
always root user.


> Another interesting thing I ran across this morning. I have 2 Xastir.exe
> files. One is at G:/cygwin/usr/local/bin/ . The other is at
> G:/cygwin/home/randy/src/xastir/src/.

The first would be the one you'd normally run.  The second is the
version you compiled from sources, that gets copied to the bin
directory by "make install".


> I have tried using the "su" but I receive an error - user root does not
> exist

Correct.

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