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- From: peters@mips2.ma30.bull.com (Dan Peters)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: SLS Good, but...?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.161559.15900@mips2.ma30.bull.com>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 16:15:59 GMT
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Bull HN Informations Systems Inc.
- Lines: 50
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- Hi,
- I am another person grateful for the SLS linux distribution.
- I installed the full set of 15 disks with just a few tricky spots.
-
- Linux is up and running, but my X server starts and quits.
-
- gwm is complaining about the missing 'mwm' file.
-
- looking at the .xinitrc file in the user1 home directory I see
- gwm invoked as follows (from my memory):
-
- gwm -rf mwm
-
- Anyway, I don't have any docs on gwm, I guessed that this was
- some sort of .mwmrc and copied '/usr/lib/X11/gwm/mwmrc.gwm' file
- to the home directory as 'mwm'.
-
- Now X starts to come up (blue screen background, xclock) then
- quits, with gwm complaining about error in profile.
- I believe he complains about several lines in this file I copied.
- Well, after deleting several lines in that file I copied, the complaint
- from gwm is 'Screen not defined'
-
- I am guessing here and have no docs for gwm.
- I left the exact info home, so my details may be sketchy.
- I am hoping that someone will recoginize and reply with a
- helpful suggestion.
-
- I really like the SLS distribution, found it easy. Just this
- one problem (it looks like a simple one too).
-
- Two other things I noticed upon intallation:
-
- /tmp was writable only by root and vi could not start;
- (I changed the permissions and vi is fine)
-
- /home/user1 (home directory for user1) was also
- writable only by root (again changed the permissions
- and al is well)
-
- Again good job with SLS and thanks in advanced for any help,
-
-
- Dan Peters
-
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