G'Day Nigel,

17 Aug 04 20:06, you wrote to me:

 >> G'Day Nigel,

 >> Obviously you weren't logged in as the correct user when you tried it
 >> first time. And then you tried it as a user without su'ing first.

 NR> Obviously, you're wrong.

 NR> The instructions say to make install as root - which I did, and it went
 NR> on to complain that I wasn't msbe user.

So you didn't bother to configure or do a make first?

The instructions say to install the program. Then login as user mbse, later
su'ing to root.

 NR> So I su'd to msbe and tried to install and it said I wasn't root...or
 NR> something like that.

Why would you su to mbse?

 NR> Anyway, I ditched it. It was pretty crappy from the looks for it.
 NR> Linux documentation was crap.

Nope, you just don't understand the significance of linux operation when
logging in as a particular user and then using su to obtain root privileges.

Cheers,
                Rick

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