Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 16:20:28 -0600 From: "Tan Gao" <TGao@novell.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: root Message-ID: <s91adddb.032@prv-mail20.provo.novell.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] dear Sir/Madam: hello! I'm a brand freshie trying to set up FreeBSD on my Windows NT 4.0 machine. I have downloaded and installed most of the components needed and still cannot get the fun rolling. Two major problems so far: when I log in as a normal user and type "startx" under my home directory, the graphical interface does not have any recognizable fonts. everything looks like bar codes in the superstore. secondly, here is an e-mail I received when logging in as the "root": "the user root was editing a file named /tmp/vi.cjZfecB306 on the machine ADG.sjf.novell.com, when it was saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not all, of the changes to this file using the -r option to vi: vi -r /tmp/vi.cjZfecB306 " I tried the above commands but nothing happened. I don't know what to recover and how. or whether this is somehting that I should be concerned with. thank you very much for your time and support! Tan [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff style="FONT: 10pt Arial; MARGIN-LEFT: 2px; MARGIN-TOP: 2px"> <DIV>dear Sir/Madam:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>hello! I'm a brand freshie trying to set up FreeBSD on my Windows NT 4.0 machine. I have downloaded and installed most of the components needed and still cannot get the fun rolling.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Two major problems so far:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>when I log in as a normal user and type "startx" under my home directory, the graphical interface does not have any recognizable fonts. everything looks like bar codes in the superstore.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>secondly, here is an e-mail I received when logging in as the "root":</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"the user root was editing a file named /tmp/vi.cjZfecB306 on the machine ADG.sjf.novell.com, when it was saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not all, of the changes to this file using the -r option to vi:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>vi -r /tmp/vi.cjZfecB306 "<BR></DIV> <DIV>I tried the above commands but nothing happened. I don't know what to recover and how. or whether this is somehting that I should be concerned with.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>thank you very much for your time and support!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Tan</DIV></BODY></HTML>help
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