From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 24 17:27:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA01400 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:27:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA01361 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:27:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA05311; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:27:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:27:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: skynet1@cris.com cc: Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help! In-Reply-To: <199609241719.RAA00221@beyond.sdi.agate.net> 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, 24 Sep 1996, Charlie Root wrote: > Help! When I enter X windows using the /usr/X11F86/X, it brings up a > graphics window and a mouse that looks like an X (figures). Now what do > I do?? All the TTYS don't come up and I move the mouse around, click, > press buttons on the keyboard but nothing happens what do I do?? Don't run X manually. Use the 'startx' command instead. > Help! In my /etc/group file it goes GROUPNAME:*:GID:users,... > What does the * stand for??? Means that you can't login as that group. See group(5). > Please do NOT email back to this address but to Skynet1@Cris.com Please DO use a reply-to. And of course we're here to help, you don't have to beg. :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major