From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 19 13:59:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C0E156C0 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 13:58:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA27761; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:54:25 +1200 (NZST) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:54:24 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Bruce Grisham Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/...../xinitrc cant write to /dev/null In-Reply-To: <371ADCCF.DC10BAC5@accumatics.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, 19 Apr 1999, Bruce Grisham wrote: > I haven't encountered this problem previously because I use FreeBSD in > isolation and I'm lazy and so I just almost always work as root. > > So I created a user, bruce [wheel]. When I run X-windows as bruce, the > apps listed in xinitrc won't start, but I can start them from my fvwm2 > menu. When I leave X-windows, I see the message '/usr/...../xinitrc > cant write to /dev/null', once for each of the apps that xinitrc tried > to start. What are the permissions for /dev/null? They should be 666. Jonathan Chen --------------------------------------------------------------------- Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message