From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 7 01:50:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA15319 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 01:50:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA15252 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 01:50:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA26776; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 01:49:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 01:49:45 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Stephen Derdau cc: "FreeBSD .org" Subject: Re: XDM root path & just a user path In-Reply-To: <363DC063.AAF0F510@bit-net.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Stephen Derdau wrote: > I'm running XDM and have it started > via /etc/rc.local > xdm -f /etc/xdm.conf > !/bin/sh > if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ] ; then > # need to cleanup first. > if [ -f /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm-pid ] ; then > rm -f /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-pid > fi > # now, we can start it. > echo -n "xdm"; /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm > fi > > Everything works better than being locked out on my > keyboard by starting it via /usr/local/etc/rc.d/xdm.sh > > Any way I can't figure out why when I log in as root > It doesn't see the patch /usr/local/bin. Because /root/.cshrc doesn't have those paths specified? Don't log in as root. Log in as yourself and use su. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message