From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 19:51:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2a.ispchannel.com (smtp.ispchannel.com [24.142.63.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95D2437B503 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:51:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ispchannel.com ([206.31.81.146]) by smtp2a.ispchannel.com (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 7d3764cdaca754bf8ae20adf0db2aa60) with ESMTP id <20001012025419.EAZY382.smtp2a@ispchannel.com>; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:54:19 -0700 Message-ID: <39E52737.60296977@ispchannel.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:51:36 -0500 From: Mark Hummel Organization: Innovative Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "ROTHENBERG, MICHAEL" , FSD Subject: HELP! I made the same mistake!!!(Michael Rothenberg) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I tried the advice of a fbsd'er other than Michael (below) which involved changing the etc/ttys file. I did as directed and now I'm stuck in an ineffective graphical login like Michael describes below. How do I get back to a single user system so I can undo the ttys file and attempt Michael's fix? Mark "the frustrated" "ROTHENBERG, MICHAEL" wrote: > /etc/profile (might have the exact file wrong) is read first and only once. > Usually .login/.profile as your login continues. The user files, > .cshrc/.shrc/.*rc depending on the shell, are read for every shell that is > started unless otherwise specified. > > The book: Unix Shells By Example has a great set of diagrams explaining the > subtle differences between c shell, borne and korn shells and what files get > read when... > > FYI, I made an error when trying to get KDE to start as login prompt and > ended up being stuk in X login screen. The secret kill keys didn't work nor > could I actually log in. It was interesting and then I had to hard reboot > without shutting down. That was not fun. After entering single user mode and > fixing the problem along with the other things that happen when power is > abruptly stopped I chose not to have a window login just to be safe. > > -Michael the Unix newbie > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Hamell [mailto:hamellr@heorot.1nova.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 9:27 AM > To: Mark Hummel > Cc: FSD > Subject: Re: How can I boot directly into KDE? > > > I am using KDE, but I have to run it by using the startx command. I'd > > like to boot directly to KDE. I've been told that this is very > > possible, but I still can't figure out the process. > > Well, I'd personally put startx into my .login for the primary > user of KDE... I'm not sure what other problems may arise from that > though. Like, is .login read every time a new shell is opened... or? > > Rick > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message