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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:30:46 -0400
From:      "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>
To:        Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: windowmanagers
Message-ID:  <39A55BC6.E418A174@mitre.org>
References:  <p04320407b5cb0a5fcd94@[192.168.1.2]>

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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

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