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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:47:10 -0400
To: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>
From: Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net>
Subject: Re: windowmanagers
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>Rick Knebel wrote:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  I intially installed windowmaker as my default windowmanager on install.
>>  I was haveing problems with users getting there backround and 
>>themes working.
>>  It worked fine in root but not for users.
>>
>>  I used sysinstall to installl kde which again works great for root
>>  but I had to edit the .xinitrc files manually in the users
>>  directories and then kde di not come up.
>>  i keep getting these error messages that say /dev/null permission denied.
>
>This last line throws up big red flags for me.  Check the permissions on
>/dev/null, they should be evil (666):
>crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    2,   2 Aug 24 02:08 null
>
>--
>    _  _    _  ___  ____  ___   ______________________________________
>   / \/ \  | ||_ _||  _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org
>  / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_  | Views expressed may not reflect those
>/_/    \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation.

Thanks,

I changed the permissions on this dev and now my windowmakers and 
netscape works.


Rick
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