> hi
> yesterday i was playing around in linux i was puting stuff in inetd etc and
> playing with the startup later when i trieg to boot X it tried to load then
> flashed back to the console with the message below.
> yes i know it says to send all output not just the ones here but i could not
> work out how to pipe the whole output into a file (how do u do that BTW).
> i hope the formating of the message is right but i had to do a straight copy
> to winbloze through samba so i had to reformat the message anyway here it
> is....

Try startx >logfile 2>&1


> Mach64: Font cache: 0 fonts_FontTransSocketUNIXConnect:
> 
> Can't connect: errno = 111
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> Fatal server error:could not open default font 'fixed'

X font server (xfs) isn't running. Seems to be a common problem with
RedHat 6.0 / 6.1 distributions - wonder what changed?
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start
should do the trick.

> ps
> i know this probebly sounds stupid but i have fegotton how to rmdir a whole
> directory including subdirs recursily without having to empty them first.. i
> cant find it in the man pages and it get really anoing when u cant get into
> x to do it......

rm -rf /path/to/directory/directoryname
(-r recursive, -f force).

> If everything in life is coming your way
> Your in the wrong lane. ;-)

Ahh... that's why people keep honking me!

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