On 01.04.2008, at 02:40, Stefan Reitz wrote: > > >> > wget dev.laptop.org/~bert/update-activities.py > > >> > python update-activities.py > > >> -bash-3.2# python update-activities.py (auto complete worked for > > >> the command) > > >> switching to user olpc ... > > >> bash: update-activities.py: command not found > > >> > > >> what am I missing? > > > > > > Run it as user olpc instead of root. > > > > That, or > > > > chmod +x update-activities.py > > ./update-activities.py > > > > Looks like my user-switching hack does not work when run as "python > > update-activities.py". > > > > - Bert - > > Since my system came back with no activities (and a new bios) the > only way to do something was ctrl-alt-f2. > Enter got me logged in as root. As such > wget dev.laptop.org/~bert/update-activities.py worked, then did > chmod +x update-activities.py and > ./update-activities.py same result as before (--> switching to > user olpc ... > > >> bash: update-activities.py: command not found) > switching to user olpc didn't help right away since now I couldn't > see the file (belonging to root and being in root's ~) anymore... > And I couldn't download it as olpc to its ~ because dev.laptop.org > couldn't be resolved (as olpc) > So I turned root again and copied update-activities.py to /home/ > olpc, changed the owner > chown olpc:olpc update-activities.py turned root again > su olpc Then > ./update-activities.py worked (If this doesn't work for someone > else, remember I did the > chmod +x update-activities.py early on...) > ctrl-alt-f3 got my back to the sugar interface > > I encountered a bunch of "caution: excluded filename not matched: > mimetype", but I don't know if this has any consequences. > The order of the activity Icons has greatly changed - is there a way > for me to influence their order of appearance? > > Thanks for the hints, I couldn't have done without.
Ah. Thanks, I identified the problem: when you download the script to ~root then the user olpc cannot read from that directory. It's better to download to ~olpc anyway so it survives the next system upgrade. I will remove the user-switching magic from the script, learned my lesson ;) New instructions are: su - olpc wget dev.laptop.org/~bert/update-activities.py python update-activities.py - Bert - _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
