Remember that Unix systems have a hierachial directory system. The PATH
variable tells the system (specifically the shell) where and how to search
for commands. Additionally, Unix, unlike Mac and Windows9x, is a multi-user
system. Each user has their own directory tree. Let's say on a large
Dan Coutu
Your recent post on
the PATH variable was excellent
(and informative for many).
Thanks for taking the time to post an informational message
to the GNLUG Mail List.
We need more quality posts
rather than those of rants or
perhaps bordering on generalities.
paulc
Michael Bovee wrote:
Maybe I just need a more basic intro book?
Maybe I should just learn OS X and go away!? :0)
No, don't go away.
Hang in there,
you'll have more fun with Linux.
paulc
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Michael Bovee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
echo $PATH returns the following info -- (linebreaks chosen for
clarity, I hope)
/usr/local/us/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin:/usr/local/us/bin:
/usr/local/us/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin:/usr/local/us/bin:
/usr/local/us/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin:/usr/local/us/bin:
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In a message dated: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:52:10 EDT
Derek D. Martin said:
None whatsoever, but I'd like to offer a perspective on why it might
be useful to leave that behavior alone...
If you're not the
sbin and /usr/sbin is not normally placed into the path of a regular user.
You can execute any Unix command by specifying it's full path:
/sbin/lilo for instance. The reason for this is that /sbin and /usr/sbin
are normally used for system management.
On 16 Apr 2002 at 8:28, Michael Bovee
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Bill,
Thanks for the great write-up! You might want to organize that into
a magazine article and submit it to LJ, I'm sure many other people
out there would be interested in hearing of your success!
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In a message dated: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:55:00 EDT
Derek D. Martin said:
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If you can't find a command, try
$ whereis command
If that doesn't turn it up, try
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In a message dated: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 08:28:55 EDT
Michael Bovee said:
Well, the encouraging replies from Derek M., Dan C., and Benjamin S.
have turned my frown upside down! (thanks for tolerating my
Michael Bovee said:
Simply put, my PATH is really hosed up! /sbin nowhere to be found. No
wonder I've been having so much trouble! But let me back up briefly
and provide info that may be useful for troubleshooters:
echo $PATH returns the following info -- (linebreaks chosen for
clarity, I
FWIW...
I've worked at so many places with so many screwed up
PATH definitions that I've basically just collected
(don't laugh!) all likely PATH components from
every place I've ever worked in a list. When I start
working somewhere new I first execute my pathPreen()
function (after suitably
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Michael Bovee wrote:
=Well, the encouraging replies from Derek M., Dan C., and Benjamin S.
=have turned my frown upside down! (thanks for tolerating my whiney
=tone yesterday)
I have long felt that the standard way for people to set their PATH
variables (in fact all colon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
So far Codeweaver's works great. There are some minor flaws and bugs.
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/24653.html
is a review of Codeweaver, posted at 10:11 EST (?!?) this morning...
b.
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In a message dated: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:47:48 EDT
Bayard Coolidge USG said:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
So far Codeweaver's works great. There are some minor flaws and bugs.
Thanks to everyone who wrote (and to anyone who actually read the
whole thing! :)
My article yesterday was a pastiche. My motivation initially had
been to talk about how Linux is helpful with online privacy issues
- but once I started, I discovered that I had to talk about how good
Libranet
After checking out the Fink project at sourceforge.net I decided to asked my
friend who wrote UltraScan for linux whether it might soon be possible to run
his software 'directly' under OSX. (He is planning to make a commercial
version for MacOSX users) He replied:
I don't think it is quite
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In a message dated: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:54:35 EDT
michael bovee said:
After checking out the Fink project at sourceforge.net I decided to asked my
friend who wrote UltraScan for linux whether it might
Hope I'm not getting on any nerves yet with my PATH questions, but anyway my
PATH as seen when logged in as root is --
/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
seems like I can just leave that alone...
Another thing -- I'm getting double posts from a lot of people, including
Paul L. Is
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On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, michael bovee wrote:
Hope I'm not getting on any nerves yet with my PATH questions, but anyway my
PATH as seen when logged in as root is --
/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
seems like I can just leave that
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In a message dated: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:06:42 EDT
michael bovee said:
Hope I'm not getting on any nerves yet with my PATH questions, but anyway my
PATH as seen when logged in as root is --
Recent versions of FreeBSD can run Linux binaries.
Darwin is based on BSD 4.4 and FreeBSD (version 3.2?) .
Can anybody confirm or deny that OS X can run Linux binaries?
I've heard that it can, to some extent (with the usual caveats).
Thanks,
--kevin
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Kevin D. Clark
Having run email listservs for over 10 years (majordomo and mailman), I
have never seen a problem where majordomo sends a message twice. Most of
the time, the respondent does a reply all.
When you have a duplicate, look into the message headers. These will tell
you how the message was sent.
I've recently become (luckily or unluckily, depending on your view) the
recipient of an old Sparc 5 that I would like to set up as a linux
server in my home network.
What I'm looking for is if anybody has any experience with distros that
are *still being maintained* for the sparc architecture?
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In a message dated: 16 Apr 2002 15:57:06 EDT
Cole Tuininga said:
I've recently become (luckily or unluckily, depending on your view) the
recipient of an old Sparc 5 that I would like to set up as a linux
I have SuSe 7.3 running on several Sun machines. Which version of the 5 do
you have 120 - 170? There was a problem loading Linux on the 170, I used to
have to load it on a 120 and move the drives to the 170.
Ed
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 15:57, you wrote:
I've recently become (luckily or
I have woody running nicely on an Ultima 1. I think I actually installed
potato then did an apt-get dist upgrade.
--rdp
On 16 Apr 2002, Cole Tuininga wrote:
I've recently become (luckily or unluckily, depending on your view) the
recipient of an old Sparc 5 that I would like to set up as
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In a message dated: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:21:02 EDT
Rich Payne said:
I have woody running nicely on an Ultima 1. I think I actually installed
potato then did an apt-get dist upgrade.
That's what I've been
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 15:06, Ed Robbins wrote:
I have SuSe 7.3 running on several Sun machines. Which version of the 5 do
you have 120 - 170? There was a problem loading Linux on the 170, I used to
have to load it on a 120 and move the drives to the 170.
Honestly, I have no idea. 8) How
My sparc-20 is running debian. Works great. I had some trouble last year
with pppd and dual CPU's so I pared it down to one CPU. Now that I've got
a cable modem maybe I'll try putting it back. Hm...
home$ uname -a
Linux home 2.2.17 #8 SMP Fri Feb 9 12:54:41 EST 2001 sparc unknown
home$
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Can anybody confirm or deny that OS X can run Linux binaries?
I've heard that it can, to some extent (with the usual caveats).
Sparc 5s came in 70, 85, 110, and 170 MHz. The 170 is called the Turbo
and is a bit different.
On the back there's a model number. The 85s and 110s all have -85 or
-110. I've never seen a 170, but I bet that has it too. The 70s do
not have -70.
I've been playing with an LX I got off
At some point hitherto, Rich Payne hath spake thusly:
I have woody running nicely on an Ultima 1
Great game! Though I liked Ultima III better, and Ultima Online
really rocked, until I started to resent the $10/mo. charge for
playing.
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Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, at 3:13pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, it's just the way things happen to working. When someone replies and
hits Reply All' it replies to both the original sender (whoever's listed
in the From: line) and to the original recipient of the e-mail (the list
in this case).
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At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly:
Which means you are sending it to them twice. Any mailing list includes
all of its members, by definition; sending to all is redundant. Do your
part to fight List Header Cancer, and
Dan Coutu wrote:
In the never-ending quest to tweak things so that they work just a
little bit better I've managed to enhance Ghostscript so much that I
can't print anymore.
:-(
Progress, but it ain't soup yet. Thought I'd update folks on what I've learned
so far in case someone else
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, at 9:54am, Bayard Coolidge USG wrote:
Dan Coutu mentioned that /sbin is Standalone BINary.
I've almost always seen it expanded as system binary, but if you're
building a system, I suppose you can say it stands for whatever you want.
I once had a guy at UNH tell me it
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, at 1:54pm, michael bovee wrote:
Any comments? Anyone know of a BSD distribution of linux for OSX?
Okay, we're confused. Here are some definitions. (List: Corrections are
welcomed.)
Operating system: The set of software which gives you a base
environment, on top of
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, at 2:21pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In order for UltraScan to run under Linux or OSX or BSD all you need
is:
a. the source for UltraScan
b. a decent compiler (gcc ought to do)
c. a UNIX based OS.
That is rather an over-simplification. I have no
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, at 10:00am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, that's not surprising in the least. I'm going to take a wild guess
that this is a RedHat system? They seem to have a knack for not including
/sbin in anyone's path, including 'root'!
Huh? I'm not an old time Unix hack by any
I have been studying this for the past few days after I discovered it on
the web:
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/edcert/index_long.html
It seems to be a very good basic intro to UNIX/Unix/Linux/*BSD and just
about any other Ken-Thompson-derived OS out there.
Of course you can't take the course on
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