----- Original Message -----
From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Ears don't work
> I hope this helps. You can learn about the switches for the tar command
> in the man page. Read it using "man tar". You can also read about the mv
> command with "man mv". and mkdir with "man mkdir". To learn about the
> man command run "man man". There is a wealth of great info in the man
> pages. Thaat is where I have found 99% of what I need to know. They are
> not easy to understand all the time, but once you get used to them it is
> not so bad.
Thanks, I have since discovered that my system may have another problem -
this tar command (generically) appears to do nothing, there is a long wait
while nothing actually happens! On the plus side it does not actually crash
;-) and ctrl C gets me the cursor back.
I noticed that the system has also now generated a core file, and I get the
impression that this is not such good news! For now I have simply deleted
it - because I have no idea how to use it usefully, and suspect that a
reinstall is on the cards quite soon. It has not always done this, so I am
fairly hopeful I can install it without the tendency to eject the warp core!
Deleteing at least allows me to see how often it does this. - so far just
once.
I have noticed also that when I issue "shutdown -h now" that it claims the
sytem is halted - but after a brief pause it then says it can't acknowledge
a page request of some kind, and after much meaningless (to me at least)
output finishes off suggesting there's a segmentation error. Now this as far
as I know it has always done, but I have not seen the core dump go into
action before.
Since it's already claimed that system has been halted, does the seg error
actually matter anymore? After all it shows up after everyone else has gone
home for the day! (ie after halted)
Regards,
Ian
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