From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 18 9:34: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FA1B37B479 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 09:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [209.150.34.250] (helo=[209.150.35.196]) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #2) id 13lwAF-0005P6-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:34:03 -0400 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: FreeBSD questions From: media@ct1.nai.net Subject: fortune stopped working on login Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:34:03 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am running 3.4R on a 133/586. Neither root nor user runs fortune at login, but they did until now. I know this isn't a major problem, but I am trying to learn as much as I can about my system. I haven't edited my .login files. This is what it says in my .login for root: [-x /usr/games/fortune ] && /usr/games/fortune It says in my login as user: [-x /usr/games/fortune ] && /usr/games/fortune -s From the root prompt: # fortune fortune: not found From the user prompt, the command fortune works (ie. it generates a quote). This seems true for all games, eg. hangman will run as user, but won't run as root. I've looked at dm.conf and read the man page for dm. However, I cannot figure out _how_ root would have less permissions (although I can see _why_). Any ideas?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message