"Sherman, Paul (CEOSH)" wrote: > I looked in root for all files; outside of "core",
I bet that's a big one, and it's of no value to you. Remove it. > "nsmail" That seems a strange thing to find in the root directory. Does RedHat use the root directory as root's $HOME? If so, then that's OK, don't delete it. BSD created a separate directory for root's $HOME 8 or 10 years ago, but I don't know about RedHat. > Again - also, with this installation, I never have been able to get > my user accounts to use X successfully. X starts, but no window > manager comes on - only the blank X screen. I'm mostly guessing here; anyone familiar with RedHat and Gnome (it was Gnome, wasn't it?) please feel free to jump in and correct me. Log in as root and open an xterm (or whatever you use to get a command line prompt). Type "cd $HOME" (no response) then "pwd". The response will probably be either "/", which means root's $HOME is the root directory, or "/root", which means nsmail should be there and not in the root directory. Doesn't really matter, I'm just curious. Now type "ls -la". The "l" is for long, it will show you the size of the files, in bytes, in a column near the middle of the lines. The "a" is for all, it will show you the files who's names start with a period. Those are normally "hidden". Look for a file called .xinitrc and have a look at its contents (it's plain text). Now you have to find the home directory of an ordinary user account. You didn't mention what account name you use, so I'm going to use "paul" in these instructions. Substitute the real login name. Type "cd ~paul". That's a tilde, in the northwest corner of the keyboard, Shift+accent grave. That should get you to the user's home directory. Type "ls -la" there and look again for .xinitrc. If there isn't one, just copy root's: "cp ~/.xinitrc ." The tilde followed immediately by the slash refers to your own (in this case, root's) home directory. The period by itself refers to the current working directory, which should be the ordinary user's home as a result of the "cd ~paul" you typed earlier. After the cp, then type "chown paul .xinitrc" and "chmod 644 .xinitrc". Now log out from root and log in as paul and see if that isn't closer to what you want. Now if there already was a .xinitrc in ~paul, look for a .xsession-errors file. If you find one it may have a clue what's wrong. One other little explanatory thing. I suspect there may be some confusion about what I mean by "filesystem". A filesystem is a (lives in a) disk partition. It's analogous to a "drive letter" in Windows, like C: or D:. In Unix, instead of giving 'em letters and colons, we tie them together into one tree of directories, but allocation of space for files is still separate, so the filesystem that contains /tmp can be full while there's plenty of space in another filesystem like /var or /home for example. The df command should give you one line of report for each file system (you might want "df -k". I don't know RedHat, but Solaris and other SysV-based systems use a useless format by default). In any case, I bet if you just rm that core file you'll be back to where you used to be. -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
