Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 14:07:15 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de To: ben@narcissus.ml.org (Snob Art Genre) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Xwindows question... Message-ID: <199702011307.OAA17209@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970121133746.13296A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> from Snob Art Genre at "Jan 21, 97 01:39:16 pm"
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Snob Art Genre writes: > On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Mike D'Arcy wrote: > >> I am relatively new to all this, so I apologize if there is a really *easy* answer to all this... >> >> Why is it that after the XF86Config program runs succesfully and >> saves my valid config file, I can't run startx or xdm or any of >> the executables - I just keep getting 'xdm: not found'? >> >> This is on a completely plain system that has been *just* installed with no errors. >> >> Is there a link or a path setup that I am missing? I poured through the docs and can't find a thing... > > Run "locate xdm" to find out where your copy of xdm is. There's a good chance that locate will draw a blank. It relies on a data base (/var/db/locate.database) that normally only gets rebuilt once a week (early on Saturday mornings, assuming the machine hasn't been turned off overnight :-). xdm and startx and xinit should all be in /usr/X11R6/bin. It's possible that you might have not installed them and still have been able to run the configure script; in this case, install from XF8632/X32bin.tgz (assuming the 2.1.6 CD-ROM). > Make sure that directory is in your path, or symlink xdm to a > directory that is in your path. If you're using a shell that hashes > the executable files on the path, you need to type "rehash". I know > tcsh does this, I don't know about other shells. Good advice. On bash, use 'hash -r' instead of 'rehash'. Greg
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