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Date:      Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:27:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        skynet1@cris.com
Cc:        Questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Help!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960924172528.5280E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199609241719.RAA00221@beyond.sdi.agate.net>

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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




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