From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 21:14:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scanmail2.cableone.net (scanmail2.cableone.net [24.116.0.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D0C437B400 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 21:14:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scanmail2.cableone.net ([10.116.0.122]) by scanmail2.cableone.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:47:46 -0700 Received: from scanmail2.cableone.net [24.116.0.122] by scanmail2.cableone.net (SMTPD32-7.04) id AC629490134; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:47:46 -0700 Received: from ( [24.117.19.236]) by mail.cableone.net with SMTP (MailShield v2.04 - WIN32 Jul 17 2001 17:12:42); Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:47:45 -0600 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 22:49:52 -0500 (CDT) From: Denny White To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: xwindows trouble Message-ID: <20020424224221.T197-100000@hal.cableone.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SMTP-HELO: hal.cableone.net X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: dennyboy@cableone.net X-SMTP-RCPT-TO: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: [24.117.19.236] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 running 4.5 stable. x was working for all. then, since i wanted to use some apps that i'd used before for benchmarking that had filled /tmp i tried doing the following taken from a fbsd book: mkdir /usr/tmp mv /tmp/* /usr/tmp (following commands supposed to be used too, but never got this far. got errors about some files not being able to be moved. was doing all this as root) cd / rmdir tmp ln -s /usr/tmp tmp Copied everything back to /tmp that had been moved & checked ownerships & groups. Everything looked like it had before. But, now users can get into Gnome & the guide loads & that's all. Zilch! Root can still use X (but shouldn't, I know). Anyway to fix this mess? "Windows is the Virus, Linux is the Vaccine, FreeBSD is the Cure!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8x3zpy0Ty5RZE55oRAldiAKC8eImLOPNmJFQBFFl4jEOGBG5/pQCgu7RZ 8WsiNIdkMO4JKcH9OfKqZiU= =8WaC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message