From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 25 5:33:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4DF137C02C for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 05:33:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA68951; Thu, 25 May 2000 07:33:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <392CD307.908859BF@freewwweb.com> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 07:33:47 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: Brian Camba Subject: RE: problems with root Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 25-May-00 Brian Camba wrote: > 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. Does root have an .xsession file in his home directory? With executable permissions? > 2) this may be the cause of the first problem. i can't seem to change > the root's shell, or any other settings. You mean "chsh" doesn't work? -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message