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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't get Xfree86 to work. Date: 23 Jun 1996 20:00:14 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4qk7oe$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4qegpu$t3q@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Paul Kersey <pkersey@postoffice.worldnet.att.net> wrote: > "file not found message. I then cd to where the executables are at then > try startx it then I get a message that says "xinit not found" but the > file is in this directory. It seems like a path or permissions problem The current directory is not in the default search path (and for security reasons, it should never be there for the `root' account on a multi-user machine). Assuming you're using the C-shell, use set path = ($path /usr/X11R6/bin) to add the X11 binaries' path. Btw., type ``./foo'' to start program `foo' when it resides in the current directory. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)