On Tue, 4 May 1999, Ralph Stickley wrote:
> Thanks to all for the info on info and other info from my previous
request!
> But...
>
> The 'man ls' or several such commands says something like this:
>
> "This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be inaccurate
or
> incomplete. The Texinfo documentation is now the authorative source"
>
> Which I took to mean that the information was obsolete (my assumption).
If I do
> 'info ls', the file displayed is the same, with the same disclaimer.
How do I
> access the authorative source files ?
> ----
Try info -f fileutils
Info files are sort of menuized into lumps rather than having one file
per command as man does. Well, a lot of he explanation is common:
permissions have the same meaning whether you are listing them with ls
or changing them with chmod.. Try ls /usr/info to see what info files
you have. info textutils is also very helpful.
>
> Which of the 255 or so options for lynx allow me to open a .html file
that is
> already on my hard disk ? Since I'm no longer on the net (see below),
I can't
> access these files from some other computer...
>
I just give it the file name on the command line, so:
lynx blah.html
It has a bunch of other conventions for references within html that I
don't bother much with.
> ----
> I had a working network card and set it up using 'netconf'. No problem,
well, ok
> a few problems, but I got them fixed.
> Then I decided to upgrade to a newer, better, faster card :-0
> I then installed the new network driver module (gcc, install, insmod
commands).
> When I ran 'netconf' and quit, I got some error messages all over my
screen that
> didn't look to healthy, so I did an orderly shutdown <ctrl><alt><del>.
As
> requested, I did the 'fsck /dev/hda1' and said yes to all the fixes.
The only times I have ever had filesystem damage, it was caused by
hardware failure, so I am not competent to advise you on this, I think.
>
> Now, when I did a reboot, I noticed that the modprobe file was not
there and
> several messages were left in /var/log/messages file. Soooo...I copied
the
> modprobe file from my RedHat disk and at boot up I get the message:
>
> modprobe is not an ELF file
>
Where on the cd did you copy modprobe from, and where did you put it?
> Ummm...I only have one distribution CD, and this file worked when it
was
> installed...
>
> What magic is the install program doing that a simple copy doesn't do ?
Here you have got me confused. The cd should have a modutils rpm,
which, if you install it with rpm, will gunzip and untar the modprobe
binary from the tar.gz file that is contained in the rpm... or did you
copy live/sbin/modprobe to /sbin/modprobe? CheapBytes didn't include
live on my RedHat CD. :-) I don't know why that wouldn't work but that
doesn't mean it will.
> Is there any way to determine which other system files were also
corrupted ?
> Are there other commands required to update the system ? (Just what
does that
> map file do anyway?)
>
> Hopeless lost again, Thanks for any help,
> Ralph
>
> Using Red Hat 5.1 V2.0.34
>
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