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Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 14:00:40 -0700
From: Brett Gianpetro <brettg@whatupg.com>
To: ozdemir dogan <ozdemirdgn@yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: gnome xdm problem
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Try:

echo '#!/bin/sh' > ~/.xsession

The key here is to use single quotes instead of double.

-Brett

On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 04:59:10AM -0700, ozdemir dogan wrote:
>      I am using Freebsd 4.5 stable.And I am new in
> Freebsd, unix.My problem is I couldn't used  xdm,that
> is I couldn' configure xdm.As in the handbook it says:
>  
> % echo "#!/bin/sh" >  ~/.xsession 
> % echo "/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session" >> ~/.xsession 
> % chmod +x ~/.xsession 
> when I wrote % echo "#!/bin/sh" > ~/.xsession ( when
> there is no .xsession file in the /root) in the shell
> command line it says:
> /bin/sh: Event not found
> Am I doing something wrong.
> Thank you.
> 
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