From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 21 13:39:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA15685 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:39:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA15676 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:39:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA13307; Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:39:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:39:16 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: "Mike D'Arcy" cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Xwindows question... In-Reply-To: <01BC079C.C4B01D20@misdb.lightscape.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Mike D'Arcy wrote: > I am relatively new to all this, so I apologize if there is a really *easy* answer to all this... > > Why is it that after the XF86Config program runs succesfully and saves my valid config file, I can't run startx or xdm or any of the executables - I just keep getting 'xdm: not found'? > > This is on a completely plain system that has been *just* installed with no errors. > > Is there a link or a path setup that I am missing? I poured through the docs and can't find a thing... Run "locate xdm" to find out where your copy of xdm is. Make sure that directory is in your path, or symlink xdm to a directory that is in your path. If you're using a shell that hashes the executable files on the path, you need to type "rehash". I know tcsh does this, I don't know about other shells. > Thanks a bunch, > > Mike > Ben The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.