Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:06:18 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke> To: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: fortune stopped working on login Message-ID: <20001018200618.A391@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> In-Reply-To: <v0313030db61344a8f97c@[209.150.35.196]>; from "media@ct1.nai.net" on Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:34:03PM -0400 References: <v0313030db61344a8f97c@[209.150.35.196]>
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* media@ct1.nai.net <media@ct1.nai.net> [20001018 19:36]: =>I am running 3.4R on a 133/586. Neither root nor user runs fortune at =>login, but they did until now. I know this isn't a major problem, but I am =>trying to learn as much as I can about my system. I haven't edited my =>.login files. This is what it says in my .login for root: => =>[-x /usr/games/fortune ] && /usr/games/fortune => =>It says in my login as user: => =>[-x /usr/games/fortune ] && /usr/games/fortune -s => =>>From the root prompt: => =># fortune =>fortune: not found => =>>From the user prompt, the command fortune works (ie. it generates a quote). =>This seems true for all games, eg. hangman will run as user, but won't run =>as root. I've looked at dm.conf and read the man page for dm. However, I =>cannot figure out _how_ root would have less permissions (although I can =>see _why_). => =>Any ideas?? I would take a guess that you changed the shell initialization file that you were having before, and gave yourself another ;-) thus changing the set PATH = " " Try, from root prompt /usr/games/fortune -o If it works then add /usr/games to your $PATH variable, i.e where it says set path = ( /x/y /usr/games) That should be in the .login or .cshrc or whatever ... => => => => => => => =>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org =>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KENYA. Press any key to continue or any other key to quit... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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