Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2

1999-05-16 Thread Lazarus Long
On Friday, May 14, 1999 at 15:53:16 -0800, Adam Shand wrote: > so it looks like root isn't supposed to be able to do this. This may be because root account is intended only for certain administrative tasks. For everything else, one should (create and) use a normal user account. I don't believe

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2

1999-05-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2 Date: Fri, May 14, 1999 at 03:53:16PM -0800 In reply to:Adam Shand Quoting Adam Shand([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > It may not be pretty or proper but it seems to work. Putting this is > > > either > &

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2

1999-05-14 Thread Adam Shand
> > It may not be pretty or proper but it seems to work. Putting this is either > > ~/.menu/ or /etc/menu and running update-menus as a user or root causes the > > menu item to appear properly. Hope this helps. > > Right!! I found this out at 2 AM this morning! > > Two kudos tho, it works her

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE

1999-05-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "m" == mguenthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: m> I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with m> update-menus, being unable to add menu entries for certain packages. However m> I was able to manage a workaround by prefixing the package name with a m> "local." For exa

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2

1999-05-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2 Date: Mon, May 10, 1999 at 01:02:25PM -0400 In reply to:Andrew Chung Quoting Andrew Chung([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I don't know if this will help, but I

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2

1999-05-10 Thread Andrew Chung
> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with > > update-menus, being unable to add menu entries for certain packages. > > However > > I was able to manage a workaround by prefixing the package name with a > > "local."

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2

1999-05-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE Date: Sun, May 09, 1999 at 05:50:07PM -0700 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with > update-menus, being un

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE

1999-05-10 Thread mguenthe
I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with update-menus, being unable to add menu entries for certain packages. However I was able to manage a workaround by prefixing the package name with a "local." For example: ?package(local.Eterm):\ needs=X11\ section=Personal\ ti

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE

1999-05-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work? Date: Sun, May 09, 1999 at 12:33:31PM -0400 In reply to:Wayne Topa Quoting Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work? > Date: Sat, May 08, 1999 at 03:32:22PM -0400 > I have run the following