Re: [Fink-beginners] What's going on here?

2005-05-22 Thread James Coyle
Oopshere's what I get when I do it CORRECTLY: [James-Coyles-iBook:~] jamescoy% ls -ld /private/tmp drwxrwxrwt 9 root wheel 306 May 22 21:45 /private/tmp BTW, when I recreated the private directory in tmp, I was able to do a selfupdate-cvs, but that did nothing (see my other note) as

Re: [Fink-beginners] What's going on here?

2005-05-22 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On May 22, 2005, at 9:17 PM, James Coyle wrote: Thanks for your help yet again. Here's what I get when I check: [James-Coyles-iBook:~] jamescoy% ls -ld /tmp/private/tmp ls: /tmp/private/tmp: No such file or directory   Where to from here? You forgot the space ;-). Try this ls -ld /tmp l

Re: [Fink-beginners] What's going on here?

2005-05-22 Thread James Coyle
Thanks for your help yet again.Here's what I get when I check:[James-Coyles-iBook:~] jamescoy% ls -ld /tmp/private/tmpls: /tmp/private/tmp: No such file or directory Where to from here?On May 22, 2005, at 7:11 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:On May 22, 2005, at 12:04 AM, James Coyle wrote: The other

Re: [Fink-beginners] What's going on here?

2005-05-22 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On May 22, 2005, at 12:04 AM, James Coyle wrote: The other night I did a regular self-update as opposed to the self-update-cvs that I usually do. Now I'm getting this error message when I try to do selfupdate-cvs, I get this error message: I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest pa

[Fink-beginners] What's going on here?

2005-05-21 Thread James Coyle
The other night I did a regular self-update as opposed to the self-update-cvs that I usually do. Now I'm getting this error message when I try to do selfupdate-cvs, I get this error message:I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package descriptions.The 'su' command will be used to r