On Sat, 20 May 2000, Josh wrote: >> There's a tiny little utility here that lets you set the trackpad to >> "notap" mode (as well as "tap", "drag" and "lock" modes): > > I tried to do this, but I really don't know what I'm doing as far as > compiling stuff. I used gcc, and now I have a file called a.out or > something.
That file is your program. You can run it by typing ./a.out from inside its directory. I suggest renaming it to "trackpad" and moving it somewhere convenient like /usr/local/sbin so that you just have to type "trackpad" to run it. a.out is the default name for a compiled executable, for historical reasons. > Also I don't have an /etc/rc.d/rc.local. I have some directories > called /etc/rc0.d, rc1.d, rc2.g etc. They have all kind of files in > them, but I couldn't find rc.local. This is because Debian stores the runlevel scripts in a style different from the one used by several other Linux distributions. On Debian, I believe you should look in /etc/rcS.d. (This is one of those old differences between SysV Unix and BSD Unix that has survived in modern Unix-like OSs to the present day.)
