From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 17 21:40:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA05812 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:40:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA05807 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:40:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA05732; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:40:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:40:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: User Mike cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: search path problems In-Reply-To: <199709171512.LAA01251@BLACKJAC.mw.mediaone.netDEST> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, User Mike wrote: > i tried to change my search path in the .login and .profile files and in > the skeleton files. and for somereason when i use the pw command to make > a new user it refuses to make them a directory and copy the skel files > to it (i did make a pw.conf file too). thanx for any help you can give. Did you specify the -m command to request a new home directory? Are you running pw as root? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo