From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 24 16:50:02 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA26180 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 16:50:02 -0800 Received: from rivers.oscs.montana.edu (rivers.oscs.montana.edu [192.31.215.70]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA26167 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 16:49:59 -0800 Received: by rivers.oscs.montana.edu (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA21486; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 17:40:41 -0700 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 17:40:39 -0700 (MST) From: Jason Boerner To: justin.kuntz@ftscorp.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Xwindows In-Reply-To: <9503231857.0QN0K00@ftscorp.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I assume that you now have XFree86 up and running? If so, you may just need to log out and then log back in. Even though a directory is in your path, the files will not be located for execution until you log back in again. I believe that source .cshrc will also work. On Thu, 23 Mar 1995 justin.kuntz@ftscorp.com wrote: > > > OK... I have installed FreeBSD v2.0 from Walnut Creek CD-ROM and I am trying > to get XWindows to work. Really I would like to get anything to work... > > The basic problem I am having is, I can't run any programs. I go to the bin > directories, see all these executables, and try typing their names (with exact > case), but nothing ever happens. > > I am logging in as ROOT, because I don't know what else to log in as. The LS > command seems to say that we have Executable privileges... do you have any idea > what is going on? > > Maybe if you could recommend where I could learn more general stuff about how > to work FreeBSD. I would very much appreciate it. > > Justin >