From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 10:44:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66AEE37B422 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:44:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02348 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:44:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA19414 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:42:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FZT55K00.89Y; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:41:44 -0400 Message-ID: <39A55BC6.E418A174@mitre.org> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:30:46 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Knebel Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: windowmanagers References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Knebel wrote: > > Hi, > > I intially installed windowmaker as my default windowmanager on install. > I was haveing problems with users getting there backround and themes working. > It worked fine in root but not for users. > > I used sysinstall to installl kde which again works great for root > but I had to edit the .xinitrc files manually in the users > directories and then kde di not come up. > i keep getting these error messages that say /dev/null permission denied. This last line throws up big red flags for me. Check the permissions on /dev/null, they should be evil (666): crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Aug 24 02:08 null -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message