Re: Mac OS X (was Re: mmm ... toys ..)
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:05:18AM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:11:13PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: I don't suppose anyone else chose 'root' as their primary account name during install? I did and am wondering if this is why my OS X installation is totally hosed useless: I can't open folders in my (own!) Home (Insufficient That would be it. Root on Mac OS X is a special user that by default isn't enabled and doesn't have a home directory, etc. You probably need to re-install and choose a normal user name. This user will What, how about bin? Or mail? Or daemon? :-) OS X really shouldn't've let me use a system name. Doh! be set up as an administrator and have pretty good access rights. For easy access you can do 'sudo tcsh' or if you want to enable root via Applications|Utilities|NetInfo - it's a menu option. Thanks! Anyone played with Project Builder? Paul
Re: Mac OS X (was Re: mmm ... toys ..)
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:35:25AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:05:18AM +0100, Neil Ford wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:11:13PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: I don't suppose anyone else chose 'root' as their primary account name during install? I did and am wondering if this is why my OS X installation is totally hosed useless: I can't open folders in my (own!) Home (Insufficient That would be it. Root on Mac OS X is a special user that by default isn't enabled and doesn't have a home directory, etc. You probably need to re-install and choose a normal user name. This user will What, how about bin? Or mail? Or daemon? :-) OS X really shouldn't've let me use a system name. Doh! Remember, OS X is an operating system especially designed for idi^H^H^Hmummies and daddies.[1] They are just going to put in their name. And why do you think /bin is hidden in the finder? It would be the first thing to go in the trash if it wasn't. Neil. [1] obviously plagariesed reference. Anyone? ;-) -- Neil C. Ford Managing Director, Yet Another Computer Solutions Company Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mac OS X (was Re: mmm ... toys ..)
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:41:17AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mysql has been ported to OSX. You can find it at http://www-u.life.uiuc.edu/~mwvaugh/MacOSX/Packages/ I was playing with it for a while and it seems fairly stable. The only real problem I had was installing DBD::mysql which couldn't find libraries etc. Finally I found a guide at http://invictus.usask.ca/macosx/ and everything went hunkdory. Well that's my first post out the way, I'm going to go and hide again now. Steve You should be ashamed sir, a first post that was vaguely on topic and helpful into the bargain. What are things coming too :-) Thanks for the info btw - most useful. Neil. -- Neil C. Ford Managing Director, Yet Another Computer Solutions Company Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mac OS X (was Re: mmm ... toys ..)
I don't suppose anyone else chose 'root' as their primary account
name during install?
I did and am wondering if this is why my OS X installation is totally
hosed useless: I can't open folders in my (own!) Home (Insufficient
Privileges), all Applications in Finder appears as folders, all
non-Finder applications in the Dock are presented as folders and
not executable ("Can't find associated application to run this"-type
message). I can't get a terminal either (Apple-K then 127.0.0.1 didn't
work). And I find myself Capitalizing words all the time :-)
Paul
Re: Mac OS X (was Re: mmm ... toys ..)
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 04:11:13PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: I don't suppose anyone else chose 'root' as their primary account name during install? I did and am wondering if this is why my OS X installation is totally hosed useless: I can't open folders in my (own!) Home (Insufficient That would be it. Root on Mac OS X is a special user that by default isn't enabled and doesn't have a home directory, etc. You probably need to re-install and choose a normal user name. This user will be set up as an administrator and have pretty good access rights. For easy access you can do 'sudo tcsh' or if you want to enable root via Applications|Utilities|NetInfo - it's a menu option. Neil. -- Neil C. Ford Managing Director, Yet Another Computer Solutions Company Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED]
