From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 3 3: 8:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABDF137B4CF for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 03:08:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.22.163.2] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13regk-000IBF-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 14:07:14 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13rejv-00099e-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2000 14:10:31 +0300 Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 14:10:31 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: write to file fail Message-ID: <20001103141031.I32036@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20001103110003.12924.qmail@web10704.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001103110003.12924.qmail@web10704.mail.yahoo.com>; from "satkal79@yahoo.com" on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 03:00:03AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * satkal79@yahoo.com [20001103 14:02]: =>Hi, => =>Your comments on the subject was really helpful... i =>removed some of the unwanted files...and the core =>files...and now.. no more "write to file fail". Thnx! => =>Yes.. i am running startx , netscape, yahoo messenger =>under root. I tried logging in to X as a user... but i =>dont seem to get the GUI as i get when i am a root. No =>applications available other than the konsole. What =>can i do to get the same GUI as I get when i am =>root??? => =>Kalai Sorry pal but I've learnt from this list that it is unwise to run X as root. You've now learnt that too. Now my way of running X is to login as another user (other than root) and run xf86config - answer all questions and have the config file created. Then for me because I use enlightenment, all I do again is to run enlightenment.install and the next time I start X enlightenment load as my GUI. I've also tried to run afterstep but kind of I had to link the file /usr/X11R6/bin/enlightenment -->afterstep (in the bin directory) Others may have different views. HTH -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. Be not penny-wise; riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves; sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more. -Francis Bacon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message