From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 2 13:53:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA10331 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 13:53:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.conline.com (root@l2.conline.com [204.96.7.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA10326 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 13:53:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dal1-30.conline.com (dal1-30.conline.com [204.96.7.30]) by mail.conline.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA27772; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 15:55:01 -0500 Message-Id: <199606022055.PAA27772@mail.conline.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Thomas Shaw" To: questions@FreeBSD.org, sahmad@interlog.com (Shazad Ahmad) Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 03:34:48 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: FreeBSD question Reply-to: zeidaot@conline.com Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.31) Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 23:25:57 -0400 To: questions@FreeBSD.org From: sahmad@interlog.com (Shazad Ahmad) Subject: FreeBSD question Dear Support, I am having some difficulty with FreeBSD 2.10 in that whenever I log in as root, I cannot run X-windows via the startx command. The error I get is 'command not found'. However, when I log in as any other user and type startx it works. I have tried going to the directory containing the startx file/command but it doesnt work as long as I'm longed in as root. A few other commands also fail to work when I login as root. This is despite the fact that the files have rwx permissions for all users. Please let me know if this is a known problem or some type of configuration issue, etc. The simple solution is to edit your .cshrc and add the path to the startx program.. /usr/X11R6/bin.