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Underrated_Orange
January 20th, 2009, 01:31 PM
Hello All:

I am a new user to Ubuntu Server.

I can't seem to get it up and running. When I check wd it shows my home directory. But when I call up sudo ls it comes up private. And yes, I know my password. :confused:

Is there a GUI that I can somehow access to get my ball rolling?

Thanks in advance

lfaraone
January 21st, 2009, 02:12 AM
Hello All:

I am a new user to Ubuntu Server.

I can't seem to get it up and running. When I check wd it shows my home directory. But when I call up sudo ls it comes up private. And yes, I know my password. :confused:

Is there a GUI that I can somehow access to get my ball rolling?

Thanks in advance


What's "wd"?

KevinCole
January 21st, 2009, 04:36 PM
What's "wd"?

Working Directory, one would assume from context. (pwd = print working directory). When logged in normally, he sees "/home/whatever" but "sudo ls" does not apparently list the contents of his home directory...

"comes up private" is the more ambiguous part to me... Comes up "/home/private"? Comes up "/private/"? Doesn't show anything and reports that something is "private"?

Can you (Underrated_Orange, not lfaraone) copy and paste exactly what you see from a "sudo ls" into the forum?

Underrated_Orange
January 26th, 2009, 10:08 PM
Thanks for the replies. I decided to go a different route. I can't remember exactly what was displayed but the fix was to use su and a command. Thanks again.

Happy Monday! :popcorn: