Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 04:23:47 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Ulairi <ulairi@jps.net> Cc: Bart Trzynadlowski <trzy@powernet.net>, Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: odd minor problems Message-ID: <19990529042346.A10874@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <001301bea973$b1d4d080$8fc4edd0@default> References: <3.0.5.32.19990528180832.00870940@powernet.net> <001301bea973$b1d4d080$8fc4edd0@default>
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Ulairi wrote: > | Sorry for the constant barrage of stupid questions, but > | I'm finally > | starting to get into this stuff although I am still a total newbie > :) > | Thanks for the support so far! It really helps! > | > | When I use whereis to find a file this always happens: > | > | /whereis of > | Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/man! > | of: > | > | This happens as root or as a user, what does it mean? > > Means the file /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/man that the CATMAN tries > to access is no there. Need to find what says it's supposed to be > there and change it :) Check /etc/manpath.config; the system default Perl is now 5.00503, I beleive. Just change that 5.00502 to 5.00503, see if that helps. > | /home/btrzynadlowski%su > | su: you are not in the correct group to su root > | > | What is the "correct group" then? > from "man su": > Only users who are a member of group 0 (normally ``wheel'') can su to > ``root''. If group 0 is missing or empty, any user can su to > ``root''. And if the original user doesn't know, to add yourself to group `wheel' just edit /etc/group and add your username to the end of the `wheel' line. > | And it always says I have new mail. When I go into mail I find 17 > | messages from various dates and times and they're subject and bodies > | are the same. Here is the subject: > | > | Nvi saved file .cshrc > | > | The system places all of these in my mailbox, but why? > > because you're root do "rm /var/mail/root" and you cleaned out your :) > mail box :) Yes, but if he wants to stop getting those messages he'll have to clean out /var/tmp/vi.recover, or just do "vi -r .cshrc" to recover the file. After that, the messages should stop coming. hmm.. most of this was directed at Bart... guess I picked the wrong message to reply to. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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