Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:09:47 +0000 From: Ghulum Dastgir <Ghulam_Dastgir@uk.ibm.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: shells, users and X Message-ID: <5060100023679139000002L092*@MHS>
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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
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