From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 17 20:06:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8BB16A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:06:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from voyager.twobirds.us (c-24-18-214-102.client.comcast.net [24.18.214.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 347BB43D6B for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:06:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joshua@twobirds.us) Received: from [63.226.239.158] (helo=twobirds.us) by voyager.twobirds.us with smtp (Exim 4.31; FreeBSD) id 1BF2dN-0000n7-3K for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:06:17 -0700 Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 20:05:45 -0700 From: Joshua Lokken To: RA Cohen Message-ID: <20040418030545.GA1004@freebsd.jolok.org> Mail-Followup-To: RA Cohen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040416151857.65008.qmail@web13910.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040416151857.65008.qmail@web13910.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Little to none... cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 5.2-1 NIS/YP KDE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 03:06:20 -0000 * RA Cohen [2004-04-16 08:28]: > Hello All, > > school environment). How can I make all of them default to KDE > without manually going into each and every central home > directory to set this? Do I need a Perl sctript to do this? How > can I get a new user addition to default to KDE? I believe you could include an .xsession or .xinitrc in the skel dir you're using to populate new users' homes. There is also an environment variable that'll do it; WINDOW_MANAGER= or similar. > > I hope I have been clear. I would think this scenario is > becoming more common as people try to move away from MS-based > networks, but I have found really scant info...There's a > LinuxWorld November 2002 article on KDE central administration, > but it doesn't address the additional problems NIS causes! Don't know NIS. -- Joshua