From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 25 0:15: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mrs-3.smartworld.net (mrs-3.smartworld.net [216.70.64.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 185C037BDF1 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 00:15:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beesea@freewwweb.com) Received: from freewwweb.com (ppp-364.tnt-1.nyc.smartworld.net [64.38.9.112]) by mrs-3.smartworld.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA78521 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 03:14:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <392CD307.908859BF@freewwweb.com> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 03:15:19 -0400 From: Brian Camba X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: problems with root Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i'm having two problems with the root account: 1) i can't start kde. after the login screen, the goes screen black, then goes back to the login screen. i've been using fvwm2, and it worked fine. 2) this may be the cause of the first problem. i can't seem to change the root's shell, or any other settings. i've written a .profile but it doesn't seem to get executed. no matter what i try, root starts with csh. since root is starting in csh, i looked at the .login file, and that doesn't seems to be executed either. what's even more confusing is that the .cshrc does seem to get executed. i also checked the /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/csh.login files. every line is commented out, so they don't have any executable lines. some please help! thanks, bc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message