From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 21 10:04:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA14578 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 10:04:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp4.ny.us.ibm.COM (smtp4.ny.us.ibm.com [198.133.22.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA14466 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 10:03:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ghulam_Dastgir@uk.ibm.com) Received: from d06mailrelay.emea.ibm.com (d06mailrelay.emea.ibm.com [9.166.34.248]) by smtp4.ny.us.ibm.COM (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA43138 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:52:40 -0400 Received: from UK.IBM.COM (d06lms01.emea.ibm.com [9.166.34.1]) by d06mailrelay.emea.ibm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA19938 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 18:00:38 +0100 Received: by UK.IBM.COM (Soft-Switch LMS 2.0) with snapi via D06AU007 id 5060100023679139; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:09:47 +0000 From: Ghulum Dastgir To: Subject: shells, users and X Message-ID: <5060100023679139000002L092*@MHS> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:09:47 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id KAA14524 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, well here goes: 1. I've installed X-windows on my FBSD installation then decided to change my root shell from /bin/csh to /bin/bash. After editing with vipw I found I couldn't access X-windows anymore i.e. if I enter startx: it says command not found. How can I fix this as startx was working previously with csh? 2. More importantly, when I add a user I find that the user's home directory is either /home/username/username or /usr/username. These home directories don't list any files and startx doesn't work. So how do I access X-windows as a user given I have a working installation as root? N.B. when adding user adduser says /home group doesn't exist - does this mean I've got to add entry to /etc/group, if so how? Is it actually worth the extra effort working as a user, because only I'll be working on my FBSD install on my pc at home. As a mere user I guess I can't acess the cdrom drive, mount my /dos partition etc - so I-ll be constatly typing "su". By the way I have version 2.2.6 and I don't seem to have been given Ghostview (it was included in the earlier 2.2.5 FBSD release), how come? any thoughts welcome..... ghulam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message