i am facing these issues after my FreeBSD 6.2 installation.

Remko Lodder remko at elvandar.org
Thu Mar 15 07:31:44 UTC 2007


On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:47:50PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote:
> Hello Ajay,
> 
> 2. May I suggest that you get the source code for vim and compile it? 
> It's available at the wonderful Vi lovers homepage at -> 
> http://thomer.com/vi/vi.html
> 
> 3. You could, for instance, create a small file containing the startx 
> command, make sure that file is executable by doing chmod ugo+x 
> <filename> and place that file in /usr/local/etc/rc.d.

That is a very bad advise imo. rc.d scripts are started by root and unless
the daemons started drop privileges, you will be running X as root, which
is not something you want to persue. Additionally; there are far better
alternatives then using these kind of solutions.

That said; Thanks for the willingness to help someone out! It is really
appriciated and shows the power of the FreeBSD Community!

Cheers,
Remko

> 
> 5. The sources are available as a package. Just install them using csup 
> or any other method you prefer.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
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