Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:47:10 -0400 From: Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net> To: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: windowmanagers Message-ID: <p04320408b5cb0fec1b6b@[192.168.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <39A55BC6.E418A174@mitre.org> References: <p04320407b5cb0a5fcd94@[192.168.1.2]> <39A55BC6.E418A174@mitre.org>
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>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. Thanks, I changed the permissions on this dev and now my windowmakers and netscape works. Rick -- Rick Knebel rknebel@uplink.net http://rknebel.uplink.net/~rknebel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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