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command line stuff!

@Doctor Q

I typed "echo $SHELL" and "echo $PATH" and i got this in return,

[John-JK-Morriss-Computer:~] johnjkmorris% echo $SHELL
/bin/tcsh
[John-JK-Morriss-Computer:~] johnjkmorris% echo $PATH
/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

@zimv20 & paulwhannel

I understand what you are saying about knowing the command line and such simple commands as "ls"and normally i wouldn't of tried to do this but in the readme file it simply stated i had to type alltogether 4 words. If it was that simple why wouldn't i try to do it?

In any case, now that it isn't working i'm happy to learn more about the command line, i'll have to anyway once i get more involved with Java development and for my own curiosity.

@mmmdreg

Yes i did
 
Originally posted by maradong
dude, when using sudo, the second command is executed with normal user rights.
use :
su [enter]
enter the password , and do everything in the root mode.
to logoff from root mode just press ctrl-d
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Yeah, i was wondering what the heck he meant when he said "sudo su".... strange:rolleyes: . Just so you know, you can also get out of root mode by typing exit.
 
CrackedButter, your SHELL and PATH look fine. The make command would normally be found in the /usr/bin directory, which is indeed in your path, and you are using the normal tcsh shell.

Mini-lesson for those who don't already know these details: SHELL and PATH are "environment variables" that store settings for your session. You can type env to see the whole list of 'em. The value of PATH is a list of directories (folders), separated by colons, in your case /bin and /sbin and /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. When you type a command (e.g., "make"), the shell looks in each of those directories for the command (e.g., /bin/make, /sbin/make, /usr/bin/make, /usr/sbin/make) and executes the first one it finds. Certain commands (like "which") are actually built into the shell so they are always found. If a command isn't built into the shell and the shell doesn't find it in one of your PATH directories, you get "command not found".

I didn't ask whether your "which make" command produced this:

which: command not found

or this:

make: command not found

but I assume it is the latter.

All these clues fit the explanation that you have not yet installed the developer tools. What's the status of that?
 
Its there the BSD.pkg file is there.

Anywho, since my ISP is terminating my account i doubt i will be back until a month from now until i register a new account with another ISP.

I get disconnected in either 30 mins or 24 hrs and 30 mins.

Something to play with until July 2nd.
 
Originally posted by CrackedButter

Anywho, since my ISP is terminating my account i doubt i will be back until a month from now until i register a new account with another ISP.
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this is getting more and more strange. are you from space?
 
CrackedButter, if you are still there:

Maybe the Developer Tools failed to install properly, or maybe they installed OK but in a nonstandard location, or maybe there's some other explanation I'm not thinking of. So let's keep experimenting. To see if you have the make command where it usually resides, copy and paste this command into your shell and let's see what it reports:

ls -l /usr/bin/*make

The expected output is something like this:

-rwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 234621 Jul 14 2002 /usr/bin/automake
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 119636 Dec 22 17:47 /usr/bin/bsdmake
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 152220 Dec 22 17:47 /usr/bin/gnumake
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 May 8 21:15 /usr/bin/make -> gnumake
 
Originally posted by altivec 2003
Yeah, i was wondering what the heck he meant when he said "sudo su".... strange:rolleyes: . Just so you know, you can also get out of root mode by typing exit.
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true, but doing so some 20 times a day made me become lazzy and use more shortcuts than ever :D
 
I was from Tiscali actually, its tonight i am getting cut off.

They cut me off but i was getting cut off anyway every 2 hours which i thought was the means of letting everyone share the connection. I'm signing up for Demon now and its an £10 a month for what i pay and i've made sure it's unlimited access, so with this at the moment i CAN stay online 24/7.

I will be getting broadband on the 18th of this month so i am waiting till then, no point in signing up for another dial up account then having to chang it again.

Anyway it takes 15 days for the broadband process to finish so i estimate its July 2nd when i come back.
 
Originally posted by CrackedButter

Anyway it takes 15 days for the broadband process to finish so i estimate its July 2nd when i come back.
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i hope you don t forget us till then :D
( of course we will still be here . at least i hope.. you never know when your car might crash ):eek:
 
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