From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu May 25 8:39: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.surf24.de (mail.surf24.de [212.62.192.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE3E37C63C for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 08:38:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de) Received: from duffner.surf24.de (surf228.surf24.de [212.62.193.228]) by mail.surf24.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA21372; Thu, 25 May 2000 17:38:46 +0200 Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:35:28 +0100 (MESZ) From: Rainer M Duffner Subject: Re: problems with root To: Brian Camba Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <392CD307.908859BF@freewwweb.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Organization: enigma, http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~enigma X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.46] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 25 May, 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. Do you have habe a file: .xinitrc with: startkde in it ? And startx via: startx ? > 2) this may be the cause of the first problem. i can't seem to change > the root's shell, You shouldn't do that - if you change it to bash and you have to start in single-user-mode, you will be in big trouble, as /usr/local/ is normaly not mounted and thus you have no shell. When I work as root, I just type bash, if I want bash. cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message