connecting to display & tcp capture 2343

Next time I go by Borders, I'll take a look at it. I did do some looking around and tracked some stuff down. Another responder was correct, the daemon doesn't start if you login as root, I should say, it no longer starts. It used to 6 or 7 years when I was running Redhat something or other on some antique PC's (386's & 486's).

That worked, I used totem to watch an avi file. In awhile, I'll fool around trying to download and install A some other CODEC's.

FC4 didn't have Flash installed, I installed it after d-l'ing it.

From memory, it was an admonition to not run as root unless you had to and use su and sudo as needed. I rarely login as root except to use "yum update".

As things turn out, she is a lawyer in a one person law office. She hires the husband of a friend of hers come over and update her virus scanner at her office and sometimes at her house. I'm to far away and work in the opposite direction from her to be much help quickly. I don't think her Win98 system is going to be easy to salvage without reformating the hard drive. I don't see any easy solution without some level of heartache and pain.

I d-l'ed and tried to install Wireshark but ran into issues with .-configure - it actually isn't worth pursuing right now. I was looking to quantify how much stuff was trying to get to her internet connection instead of "a lot of light blinking on the modem".

There so much to try and keep track of (wait, last time I tried that, did it work or didn't it...) I prefer dead trees for general concepts and principles,

-- Take care This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. pay for this, etc. (directly anyway)