I can't launch X-applications from from an xterm when I'm logged in as root. This should only happen when you're working on sand , not from eXceed. When people send email to an account on sound, their email is bounced. Either sand has been off the net for a prolongued period, or the hard-drive is full. If sand isn't on the net, get it back on the net via instructions for above net-related problems.
Sand seems slow , as if the disk was swapping or the cpu was bogged down.
Either a regularly scheduled, important process is being run, or somethin' funky is afoot. At a linux prompt, type ' top '. If in doubt, contact me, ed , or nat Aliens are peeing orange juice out the floppy drive. You could also try nat . If it's late at night, or during a thunderstorm, wait until another time to contact them.