Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 13:12:08 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue2@welearn.com.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: anthony@sohopros.com, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: xinit with non root login? Message-ID: <19980313131208.22637@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19980313122134.18401@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 12:21:34PM %2B1030 References: <3.0.32.19980312195038.00805a80@pop.flash.net> <19980313122134.18401@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Fri, Mar 13, 1998 at 12:21:34PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> > Greg, I think my problem is a path problem. When I execute
> > xinit I get this message:
> >
> > #xinit
> > xinit: not found
> >
> > Could you help me set the correct path? I'm also not sure
> > where the path goes. I have your book but I'm unable to
> > find out exactly what I need to set to make this work.
>
> Depends on the shell you're running. For sh, bash, ksh, zsh, put
> something like this in your .profile file:
>
> PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin
>
> I'll leave somebody else (Doug, are you listening?) to tell you the
> syntax for csh and tcsh.
My .profile (and /usr/share/skel/dot.profile) in FreeBSD 2.2.2 has these two
lines:
# add /usr/games or /usr/X11R6/bin if you want
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:$HOME/bin; export PATH
It took an lot of painful searching to work out why my X wasn't working
after the upgrade. The path in /usr/share/skel/dot.login does not appear to
have had games and X consored in this way, but I find it a handy reference
for the different syntax when stuck with csh.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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