Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 11:20:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu> To: Jesse <bextreme@m4.sprynet.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X-Windows has ceased to exist (sorta) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960809111104.3887B-100000@ken.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199608091702.KAA12785@m4.sprynet.com>
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On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Jesse wrote: > I have plenty of space, no errors (exept the X: command not found, > xstart : command not found, etc. etc. etc. In fact, as near as I can > tell, there isn't a single file thats executable anywhere in my X11R6 > directory. > Jesse Brown (bextreme@sprynet.com) sounds to me like your $PATH environment variable is null. type: echo $PATH to check. If it is null, then your should put it in your /etc/rc so that it'll always be there. My $PATH is set to: /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin in your rc file, don't forget to export your PATH, so that it will remain after rc finishes executing. It will look like this: PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin export PATH If that's not it, check the file permissions on the executable files, with ls -l. This will show you something like: -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 16384 Jul 13 19:48 vidcontrol -r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 8798 Jul 13 19:48 vidfont -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 12288 Jul 13 19:48 vipw -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 12288 Jul 13 19:48 vnconfig /\ \____ the first spot is - for a regular file and d for a directory the next three are read, write, and execute for the file owner. the three after than are r,w,x for the group, and final three are for anybody on the system. Most of your executable should be like these. If the aren't then you really messed up the install, and you should probably do it again, unless a guru has a shell script or something to make it right. Hope this was helpful. These things are covered in any basic book about UNIX in general. Ken Marsh _ _ __ _ _ / \ / \ / | / \ / \ Student of Engineering | | / / / / | \ | | University of Washington | |/ / / /_ | \ \ | | Ken Marsh: Durang@U.Washington.edu | \ \ __| | | \ \| | | |\ \ \ \ | | \ | "If you're going to eat a frog, | | \ \ \ \ | | \ | eat a nice juicy one." \_/ \_\ \_| \_/ \_/ - Wongani Nyasulu -
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