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Date:      Thu, 25 May 2000 03:52:39 -0400
From:      Brian Camba <beesea@freewwweb.com>
To:        Jukka =?iso-8859-1?Q?Simil=E4?= <jukka.simila@sveg.se.sykes.com>, freebsd list <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: problems with root
Message-ID:  <392CDBC7.E35DA93@freewwweb.com>
References:  <8F68F32EB034D311A4A700508B4417D70267BF0C@RATATOSK.sveg.se.sykes.com>

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Jukka Similä wrote:

> How about /.cshrc and /.profile ?

i've written them.  neither of them are executing

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Brian Camba
> > Sent: den 25 maj 2000 09:15
> > To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: problems with root
> >
> >
> > i'm having two problems with the root account:
> >
> > 1) i can't start kde.  after the login screen, the goes screen black,
> > then goes back to the login screen.  i've been using fvwm2, and it
> > worked fine.
> >
> > 2) this may be the cause of the first problem.  i can't seem to change
> > the root's shell, or any other settings.  i've written a
> > .profile but it
> > doesn't seem to get executed.  no matter what i try, root starts with
> > csh.  since root is starting in csh, i looked at the .login file, and
> > that doesn't seems to be executed either.  what's even more
> > confusing is
> > that the .cshrc does seem to get executed.  i also checked the
> > /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/csh.login files.  every line is commented out,
> > so they don't have any executable lines.
> >
> > some please help!
> >
> > thanks,
> > bc
> >
> >
> >
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