On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:53:56 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
/usr/home/rocketmouse, _not_ user/home/rocketmouse
It wasn't possible to copy the message, so I've written it. It's very
likely that I made a typo. I'm a dyslexic and since there's no big
difference between /usr and
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:51:13 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 03:53:56 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
/usr/home/rocketmouse, _not_ user/home/rocketmouse
It wasn't possible to copy the message, so I've written it. It's very
likely that I made a typo. I'm a dyslexic
Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart
Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too?
$ su -
Password:
root@freebsd:/root # mcedit
Error
/root is not a regular file [ Dismiss ]
root@freebsd:/root # gedit
(gedit:17410): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:46:00 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart
Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too?
$ su -
Password:
root@freebsd:/root # mcedit
Error
/root is not a regular file [ Dismiss ]
Seems to be a problem with
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:38:45 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
# cd /root
# mv .mc .mc.orig
# mcedit
$ mv .mc .mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013
$ su root -c mv /root/.mc /root/.mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013
$ mcedit
Error
user/home/rocketmouse is not a regular file [ Dismiss ]
That should
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 11:21:17 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:38:45 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
# cd /root
# mv .mc .mc.orig
# mcedit
$ mv .mc .mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013
$ su root -c mv /root/.mc /root/.mc.pre.update-01-Jan-2013
$ mcedit
Error
Since I only run mcedit without a file, the error message is grotesque
and btw.
$ ls -l /usr/home
total 2
drwxr-xr-x 26 rocketmouse rocketmouse 1536 Jan 20 13:07 rocketmouse
$ ls -l /home
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Dec 18 19:19 /home - usr/home
Thank you for the hints. I take the issues
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:46:00 +0100
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote:
Wow, if on Linux something is fishy, it usually has to do with Lennart
Poettering, does he break FreeBSD too?
$ su -
Password:
root@freebsd:/root # mcedit
Error
/root is not a regular file [ Dismiss ]
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:20:10 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Since I only run mcedit without a file, the error message is grotesque
and btw.
Exactly - it is, and probably misleading as it implies that
mcedit is trying to access something that doesn't even exist,
even with a maximum of imagination.