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From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
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Peter Landy wrote:
> 
> An easy question. I have just installed the latest FreeBSD and all seemed well.
> However when I reboot and log in I now only seem to be able to run commands if I
> give them the full path. i.e. /usr/X11R6/bin/startx and then obviously it can't
> find xinit. So I can run /stand/sysinstall but I can't just put in sysinstall.
> Any ideas. Thanks
> 

Welp, I don't run X so I hope I'm not totally off base here.

But Yea, you need to fixup your PATH, Include /usr/X11R6/bin
in it.
I *belive* root dosn't have this intentionally, X should not be
run by root.

-Enjoy
Gary
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