From owner-cvs-etc Thu Nov 30 16:22:55 1995 Return-Path: owner-cvs-etc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA07507 for cvs-etc-outgoing; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 16:22:55 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA07500 ; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 16:22:44 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA01289; Thu, 30 Nov 1995 16:13:41 -0800 To: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-etc@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc/root dot.Xdefaults dot.fvwmrc dot.xsession dot.cshrc dot.login In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Nov 1995 23:39:00 GMT." <199511302339.XAA00604@linus.demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 16:13:40 -0800 Message-ID: <1287.817776820@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk There's a method to my madness. The first time you'll come up, you'll be root. There are no other logins on the system. You log into root and if the X setup stuff went OK, you type "startx". At this point you need a reasonable looking desktop, including an unobtrusive little button somewhere labeled "Configure". I can see how it might violate certain purist sensibilities, but this was the shortest path between two points. Jordan > > From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" > > Date: Wed 29 Nov, 1995 > > Subject: cvs commit: src/etc/root dot.Xdefaults dot.fvwmrc dot.xsession dot .cshrc dot.login > > > jkh 95/11/29 18:28:43 > > > > Modified: etc/root dot.cshrc dot.login > > Added: etc/root dot.Xdefaults dot.fvwmrc dot.xsession > > Log: > > Revamp root's dotfiles. > > Submitted by: Patrick Hausen + mods by me > > Do any other old BSD fogies find these inappropriate? > > I'm sure there is a place for some nice example *user* setups (maybe under > /usr/src/share/examples, or even all set up under a guest account in a new > install), but these files get installed as the default *root* environment. > > The default system environment should (more or less) be good enough for root, > give or take a few things to make system administration and i18n more natural