From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 25 0:55:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mrs-1.smartworld.net (mrs-1-fix.smartworld.net [216.70.64.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F84137B9F1 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 00:55:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beesea@freewwweb.com) Received: from freewwweb.com (ppp-364.tnt-1.nyc.smartworld.net [64.38.9.112]) by mrs-1.smartworld.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA61876 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 03:55:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <392CDCB5.DEDFDBB3@freewwweb.com> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 03:56:37 -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 list Subject: Re: problems with root References: <8F68F32EB034D311A4A700508B4417D70267BF0C@RATATOSK.sveg.se.sykes.com> <392CDBC7.E35DA93@freewwweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brian Camba wrote: > Jukka Similä wrote: > > > How about /.cshrc and /.profile ? > > i've written them. neither of them are executing sorry about that. i misread it. yes, i have check those as well. and they are all commented out. > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Brian Camba > > > Sent: den 25 maj 2000 09:15 > > > To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > > > Subject: problems with root > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message