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Date:      Fri, 17 Apr 1998 01:44:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com>
To:        Bob Ashby <bashby@seanet.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Running X
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.980417014236.2068O-100000@foo.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <000b01bd699f$62af15c0$f9810ccf@default>

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On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Bob Ashby wrote:

> This is getting annoying.  I have loaded FreeBSD 2.2.5 so far everything
> works well from root.  I established a usr (me) when I log on as a user I
> can't run "startx" even when I cd /usr/X11R6/bin and ls the directory to
> make sure that the file is there and type "startx" I can not get it to
> start.  Is there any help for me?

Yes.  However, we'll probably need to know more to help you.

When you can't run startx, how are you trying to run it, and what sort of
error do you get when you try to run it?

You may try specifying the entire path, e.g.

	/usr/X11R6/bin/startx

and see if that helps.

bryan k ogawa  <bkogawa@primenet.com>   http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/


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