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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!warrane.connect.com.au!troll.apana.org.au!rivendell.apana.org.au!not-for-mail From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD slowly corrupting Date: 21 Nov 1994 20:39:21 +1000 Organization: Rivendell - APANA Brisbane Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3aptcp$ejg@rivendell.apana.org.au> References: <CzI9DM.A3G@ucc.su.OZ.AU> NNTP-Posting-Host: rivendell.apana.org.au X-Comment-To: Ian Wynne X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ian Wynne (ianw@cassius) wrote: Hi, You might like to fix up your 'From:' address sometime :-) : If I type "man ls" the screen clears and the prompt goes to the top left : corner of the screen. But nothing is displayed. man 3 curses, gives the same : result. All of the manual pages and directories are in place. In the right place though? Formatted (and gzipped) pages go into /usr/share/man/catN unformatted (nroff-format) pages go in /usr/share/man/manN. : If I try to start XFree, I get the message "xf86OpenConsole: server must be set : suid root". I'm using XFree86 3.1 Make the server suid root! :-) (chown root /usr/X11R6/bin/X; chmod 4111 /usrX11R6/bin/X) Phil. -- Phil Homewood phil@rivendell.apana.org.au APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au "I can't remember anything, Can't tell if this is true or dream, Deep down inside I feel to scream, This terrible silence stops me"