Can't help you much, but some of the smaller questions I can answer. On 18 Apr 99, at 14:34, Hans van den Boogert wrote about Looking for trouble.:
[snipped to conserve bandwidth] > Questions: > 1) What is an easy way to go to the previous directory, e.g. I am in > /usr/bin and want to go to /usr? try cd .. This will take you to the parent directory of any directory you're in. Another handy shortcut along these lines is cd - this will take you to the most recent directory you were in. For example - you're in /etc and you issue a cd /usr/src you're now in /usr/src; if you issue a cd - you will end up in /etc, if you then issue another cd - you will be back in /usr/src > 2) With the base system installed I can't open man pages, that is, when [snipped to conserve bandwidth] > installed? How to open/read .gz files. you need to get the man page package installed - catch22 :) I'm not sure if you have gzip, gunzip installed at this point or not. if so you can issue a gunzip <name.gz> to unzip the file, then look at the file, then followed by a gzip <name> to zip it up again (don't forget this last step). > 3) I tried to create some scripts, very simple ones, but they refuse to > run, or the system says "command not found." Example: [snipped to conserve bandwidth] > Saved as "telltime," then mode changed with chmod -v u+x telltime. > With cat I can still see the contents of the file as plain text. Is > this normal? As said, when executing "telltime" the system returns yes - it is normal > "command not found." I know that you have to watch the path, but try - while in directory with script, issuing ./telltime I'm not sure what your current path is. Issue an echo $PATH to find out. > even when I put this script in / or /bin it still won't run, while > installed commands like "date" do run from almost every directory. > What do I do wrong? try, while in the directory with the script, issuing ./telltime > 4) Any hints to where to find some in dept Debian specific FAQs? I know > there is a lot around, and believe me I've been reading, but most > tutorials/FAQs assume that the system is running smoothly and hardly deal > with problem solving. That's because no-one ever has any problems to solve <VBG> It appears that most of the Debian specific stuff is still in the process of being written, and they probably want to get all the base documentation down first. > > Thanks for the help. what little it was - you're welcome. ============================== Jan M. - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint:397D 093C E802 964E 5316 B90A 93CE 6696 Thought for the day: Only someone who understands something absolutely can explain it so no one else can understand it. -- Rudnicki's Nobel Prize Principle
