Get Out Of Jail Free!

[Janina Sajka]

No, no, no. You have to login on each console.

Until you've logged in on a particular console, you have no
command prompt for commands like 'emacs.'

One more time ...

You have to login for each console that you open. It's not like
Windows, remember?

Do you know how to tell without speech whether or not you're at a
command line prompt? If you press back space and the speaker
beeps, you're there. If not, you aren't.

Of course, if you've typed something on the command line, you'll
have to press back space that many times to erase what you've
typed first. But, once you've erased the command line, you will
get a beep from the speaker when you press backspace.

You will not get a beep if you press backspace at the login
prompt.

So, login when you change consoles. Then, press backspace and
listen for the beep. If you have it, you succeeded logging in. If
you don't, something didn't go correctly.

On Mon, 20 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

> Thank you for su command. I never heard about it.
> 
> I've tried alt+f2, then typing emacspeak, but nothing happend. I will try
> with Control+alt+f2, and I hope it will work.
> 
> Thanks./
> Teddy,
> orasnita at home.ro
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 6:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Get Out Of Jail Free!
> 
> 
> On Mon, 20 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> 
> > Q: How to become root in another console?
> 
> Use Ctrl-Alt-FX (where X is a number 1 to 6) meaning use the
> function keys on the top row of the qwerty keyboard. You know
> what function keys are, right?
> 
> Use this key cvombination to go to a console where you are not
> logged in and login as root.
> 
> Alternatively, I believe you wrote the other day that you telnet
> to your linux machine from your Windows machine? Well, if emacs
> seems to go bad on you, go to your Windows machine and open a
> telnet session to your Linux machine. Just because emacs isn't
> talking doesn't mean your machine is dead.
> 
> If you're already logged in via telnet from Windows as whatever
> you use for your username, type:
> 
> su -
> 
> and provide the root password.
> 
> Actually, there's no reason not to open several telnet sessions
> from your Windows machine. Your Windows is capable of that, isn't
> it?
> > Q: How can I read the screen if emacspeak is not speaking? I want to find
> > out the PID of the process I should kill.
> >
> In a different console or a different telnet session. You can
> open more than one at a time, you know. This is Linux, not
> Windows.
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
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