Hi everyone I've got fink installed and set-up just dandy, no complaints from this new KDE users (although i could never get gnome to run properly, but i aren't going to get onto that subject!!). Everything has been running fine for months :)
Anyhow, although all is fine but i've got one question. When i do an 'ls' i've started to notice a delay in response, similar for other commands like 'df'. Upon doing the 'which ls' command these obviously link from the sw directory rather than originally from apple's locations ( /bin/ls ). As that comes first in the list of $PATH (as it should) Now i've tried creating an alias that forces my korn shell to use the original pre-installed commands. ie, alias ls='/bin/ls' (but it doesn't seem to work!). Now all i'm thinking is perhaps i should just rename from /sw/bin/ls to something like /sw/bin/ls-backup Then my shell should pick up apple's version..?? But how would fink react to this, esp when doing updates? But i'd like to know why alias doesn't work. I've used this feature for a directory path a few months back (to save me typing it out each and every time i wanted to check the kdx logs. But i since deleted this alias as i don't use kdx anymore. But it did work!) Perhaps the other big question here is why /sw/bin/ls is so much slower than apple's. There is a noticeable delay when i'm at (say) $HOME and i simply type in ls -la But /bin/ls -la is fast, just how it should be. So what could be slowing down fink's release of ls? (and now i'm wondering how many other commands might be slower and i've just never realised! hmmm) Appreciate any help, always learning :) cheers, Steve. ps, i'm on digest so apologies for slow replies DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. As a public body, Salford City Council may be required to disclose this email [or any response to it] under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, unless the information in it is covered by one of the exemptions in the Act. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. For the full disclaimer please access http://www.salford.gov.uk/e-mail. Thank you. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
