Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:35:28 +0100 (MESZ) From: Rainer M Duffner <Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de> To: Brian Camba <beesea@freewwweb.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with root Message-ID: <Marcel-1.46-0525163528-d07Zsav@duffner.surf24.de> In-Reply-To: <392CD307.908859BF@freewwweb.com>
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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
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