Re: multipart? was Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2004-06-11 Thread Erylon Hines
On Thursday 10 June 2004 07:35 pm, Eric Huff wrote: | On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:31:25 -0700 | | Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This is a multi-part message in MIME format... | | =_1086900076-13954-3211-- | | Anybody know why this came through as multi-part mime ? | |

Re: [newbie] Sound

2004-06-11 Thread Erylon Hines
On Thursday 10 June 2004 08:18 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: | Teilhard Knight wrote: | snip | | | | Indeed. Although most of the things you say are new to me, I can appreciate | command-line Linux is a much more powerful OS than DOS ever was. To be | honest, I feel impatient for seeing the end of

Re: multipart? was Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2004-06-11 Thread Margot
Erylon Hines wrote: On Thursday 10 June 2004 07:35 pm, Eric Huff wrote: | On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:31:25 -0700 | | Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This is a multi-part message in MIME format... | | =_1086900076-13954-3211-- | | Anybody know why this came through as

Re: [newbie] Sound

2004-06-11 Thread aron
On Thursday 10 June 2004 11:45 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Thursday 10 June 2004 08:18 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: | Teilhard Knight wrote: | snip | | Indeed. Although most of the things you say are new to me, I can | appreciate command-line Linux is a much more powerful OS than DOS ever |

Re: [newbie] Palm sync software

2004-06-11 Thread j . gregorycroes
Hallo, Mikkel Check out this link to see you like it. http://www.multisync.org/ regards, gregory - Original Message - From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:04 am Subject: Re: [newbie] Palm sync software Amy wrote: I'm using KDE, so I guess I'll

Re: [newbie] Link htdocs in Linux to htdocs in windows in the same computer

2004-06-11 Thread OOzy
The windows files are write-protected. How can I write-un-protect On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 20:47, OOzy wrote: I tried to link my var/www/html to /mnt/win_c/htdocs but it tells that this file sys is read only so I log as root trying to change the permission; however, I could not. On Wed,

[newbie] Good PHP Editor

2004-06-11 Thread OOzy
Hi all I know that I am asking alot of dump questions but I have to. I am switching from MS Win to Linux and I need to have all functionality of windows in Linux. Any how anybody knows a good PHP Editor? Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Link htdocs in Linux to htdocs in windows in the same computer

2004-06-11 Thread Marc Hultquist
It depends on what windows you have installed, if its a windows that uses a fat32 file system then you are fine, however if you are using a windows that uses ntfs such as XP or 2000 etc, you wont really be able to do what you want, as Linux only has read support for ntfs, while there is write

Re: [newbie] Good PHP Editor

2004-06-11 Thread Marc Hultquist
Maguma has a Linux version of their php editor. www.maguma.com, I am not sure if its free or not though, have not looked at their website for a good while now. -- Marc Hultquist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computerkit Systems (Pty) Ltd http://www.cks.co.za (P) +27 11 695 5317 (F) +27 11 312 1408

Re: [newbie] Good PHP Editor

2004-06-11 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OOzy wrote: Hi all I know that I am asking alot of dump questions but I have to. I am switching from MS Win to Linux and I need to have all functionality of windows in Linux. Any how anybody knows a good PHP Editor? Have you tried Quanta Plus? I like

[newbie] searching for answers....

2004-06-11 Thread Curt
I'm scouring the web for answers to several issues I'm having with several programs. To save me searching for yet another little annoyance, can anyone tell me if the archive contains an answer to the reason that I'm (suddenly - as of yesterday) receiving two copies of most posts to this list?

Re: [newbie] Cinelerra

2004-06-11 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 23:33, Linus Drouhard wrote: I get no error messages, nothing but Aborted. Any suggestions? I had the same problem with a version of it, but I can't remember what it was. I'm running 9.2. and Cinelerra 1.1.6 is working fine. You could give it a try. -- josenildo marques

[newbie] new to list -- testing subscription -- please ignore

2004-06-11 Thread Jason Kretzer
How about them Pistons? __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what?

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Scott
- Original Message - From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what? Eric Scott wrote: Yo, I recently backed up some stuff from on Lintel/Wintel hybrid

Re: [newbie] Ugly display with KMail composer msgs.

2004-06-11 Thread Jason Wilson
J Adam Latham wrote: Dear All: Whenever I send a message with KMail it delivers the message in a wierd and ugly format ... What it does is print a sentence of the message on one line, then on the next line it only prints a word, then a sentence, then a word ... (This message, I'm sure, is doing

[newbie] OT: french kids stories

2004-06-11 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, sorry for the OT, I've been searching the internet for free kids stories in french. Do you know any? Thanks. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 21:01:33 up 12:35, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar)

[newbie] Totem Movie Player produces static on stream.cgi

2004-06-11 Thread Hoyt Bailey
When I connect a video stream Totem plays the video fine but the audio is nothing but static (white audio noise). On Kmix muting PCM removes the noise but nothing else affects the noise. Any suggestions? -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your

[newbie] Boot Floppy

2004-06-11 Thread Peter
Hi all, I want to install Mandrake on a pc, But it will not boot from the CD, is there a way to make a bootable Floppy to load the CD? Peter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

Re: [newbie] OT: french kids stories

2004-06-11 Thread Marc Lijour
Hi sorry I do not understand what you are looking for. I would be happy to help if I could... -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, sorry for the OT, I've been searching the internet for free kids stories in french. Do you know any? Thanks. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd

Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what?

2004-06-11 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 11 June 2004 09:50 am, Eric Scott wrote: Failsafe doesn't work, I already tried that. I can handle getting into rescue mode via the CD, but how do I edit /etc/fstab and what exactly do I edit? I'm a real novice here. Thanx, ES Eric, you might want to keep in mind that no

Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy

2004-06-11 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 June 2004 06:32 pm, Peter wrote: Hi all, I want to install Mandrake on a pc, But it will not boot from the CD, is there a way to make a bootable Floppy to load the CD? Peter Yes, Peter, you can. Check the CD, on the image folder, I

Re: [newbie] OT: french kids stories

2004-06-11 Thread Edgars Smits
you know, French stories, nudge, nudge Marc Lijour wrote: Hi sorry I do not understand what you are looking for. I would be happy to help if I could... -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, sorry for the OT, I've been searching the internet for free kids stories in french. Do you

Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy

2004-06-11 Thread Margot
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 June 2004 06:32 pm, Peter wrote: Hi all, I want to install Mandrake on a pc, But it will not boot from the CD, is there a way to make a bootable Floppy to load the CD? Peter Yes, Peter, you can. Check the CD, on the

Re: [newbie] OT: french kids stories

2004-06-11 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 June 2004 09:25 pm, Edgars Smits wrote: you know, French stories, nudge, nudge Edgar, you're very naughty! :) I've finally come across the BBC website containing French news, and then to the Le Figaro - a French newspaper. Well, I

[newbie] Can I install my own program on my web host

2004-06-11 Thread OOzy
May be this question is to be asked here but I am asking to know if it is feasible. Can I install program like Octave on my directory in my web host? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] .tar.gz

2004-06-11 Thread OOzy
How to extract .tar.gz file. I tried tar -xvf file but no help Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] .tar.gz

2004-06-11 Thread Cookie
try tar zxvf file On 11 Jun 2004, at 16:24, OOzy wrote: How to extract .tar.gz file. I tried tar -xvf file but no help Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] .tar.gz

2004-06-11 Thread Jason Kretzer
try tar -xvfz the 'z' unzips thegz portion the 'x' extracts the tar portion the 'v' is for verbose mode the 'f' is to specify the file -JasonOOzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to extract .tar.gz file. I tried "tar -xvf " but no helpWant to

Re: [newbie] Ugly display with KMail composer msgs.

2004-06-11 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 11 June 2004 06:57 am, Jason Wilson wrote: | J Adam Latham wrote: | Dear All: | | Whenever I send a message with KMail it delivers the message in a wierd | and ugly format ... What it does is print a sentence of the message on | one line, then on the next line it only prints a word,

[newbie] libcrypto.so.0

2004-06-11 Thread OOzy
I am trying to install glimmer but it requires libcrypto.so.0. What is this and where can I find it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] libcrypto.so.0

2004-06-11 Thread Thomas Wilkowski
http://www2.linuxforum.net/RPM/Mandrake/updates/9.1/RPMS/libopenssl0-0.9.6i-1.3.91mdk.i586.html The libraries files are needed for various cryptographic algorithms and protocols, including DES, RC4, RSA and SSL. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the

Re: [newbie] libcrypto.so.0

2004-06-11 Thread John Drouhard
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 18:52 +0300, OOzy wrote: I am trying to install glimmer but it requires libcrypto.so.0. What is this and where can I find it? $ urpmf libcrypto.so.0 libopenssl0.9.7:/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 John -- Fri Jun 11 11:04:43 CDT 2004 Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for

Re: [newbie] .tar.gz

2004-06-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 11 Jun 2004 16:29, Cookie wrote: try tar zxvf file On 11 Jun 2004, at 16:24, OOzy wrote: How to extract .tar.gz file. I tried tar -xvf file but no help Or click on it with konqueror derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] libcrypto.so.0

2004-06-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 11 Jun 2004 16:52, OOzy wrote: I am trying to install glimmer but it requires libcrypto.so.0. What is this and where can I find it? Go here http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php Follow the instructions to install software sources for 'contrib', 'plf' and 'updates' Then either type

Re: [newbie] Ugly display with KMail composer msgs.

2004-06-11 Thread J Adam Latham
Jason Wilson wrote: J Adam Latham wrote: Dear All: Whenever I send a message with KMail it delivers the message in a wierd and ugly format ... What it does is print a sentence of the message on one line, then on the next line it only prints a word, then a sentence, then a word ... (This

Re: [newbie] libcrypto.so.0

2004-06-11 Thread OOzy
Do I have to download it or is it part of My LM9.2 Distro? On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 19:05, John Drouhard wrote: On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 18:52 +0300, OOzy wrote: I am trying to install glimmer but it requires libcrypto.so.0. What is this and where can I find it? $ urpmf libcrypto.so.0

Re: [newbie] Ugly display with KMail composer msgs.

2004-06-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Friday 11 June 2004 09:33 am, J Adam Latham wrote: Jason Wilson wrote: J Adam Latham wrote: Dear All: Whenever I send a message with KMail it delivers the message in a wierd and ugly format ... What it does is print a sentence of the message on one line, then on the next

Re: [newbie] libcrypto.so.0

2004-06-11 Thread robin
OOzy wrote: Do I have to download it or is it part of My LM9.2 Distro? If you tried to install glimmer with urpmi, and it wouldn't install lybcrypto automatically, then it isn't in your distro. Of course you may be trying to install a more recent version of glimmer which requires a more recent

[newbie] DVD Movie making

2004-06-11 Thread Travis Crook
Hi All, This might be a little off-topic, but does anyone know of a good DVD authoring package? With menu creation? Thanks! -- Travis Crook Visions Beyond www.VisionsBeyond.com 208-478-7836 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Installing Gnuplot

2004-06-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
OOzy wrote: Hi all I downloaded the following gnuplot. The I unzipped it. Then typed configure then make. This suppose ver 4. However, every time I type gnuplot I get the previous version which 3.7. What wrong? How I fix it? gnuplot-4.0.0.tar.gz Did you remove the old version of gnuplot? If it is

Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what?

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Scott
- Original Message - From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 9:12 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what? On Friday 11 June 2004 09:50 am, Eric Scott wrote: Failsafe doesn't work, I already tried that. I can

Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what?

2004-06-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Eric Scott wrote: - Original Message - From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 9:12 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what? On Friday 11 June 2004 09:50 am, Eric Scott wrote: Failsafe doesn't work, I already tried

Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what?

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Scott
- Original Message - From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what? Eric Scott wrote: - Original Message - From: Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what?

2004-06-11 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 11 June 2004 01:31 pm, Eric Scott wrote: Thanx... I'm almost ok so far. I figured out that the local HD is hdc, and the mandrake partition is hdc6, and I'm almost sure that the hard disk that I put in and removed was hdd, 'cause it always stalls while trying to mount hdd when I

Re: [newbie] Palm sync software

2004-06-11 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:53:18 -0400 Marv Boyes disseminated the following: Jpilot is the closest you'll get to Palm Desktop on Linux. I've been using it for about a year and a half with my Clie. Kpilot is handy if all you want to do is install a file (or sync with, say, Evolution), but

Re: [newbie] Re: nVidia drivers killed my Xfree?

2004-06-11 Thread RickS
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 16:56:00 -0500 Eric Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Hey, me again :-P, | I recently downloaded nVidia drivers from the nVidia website, installed|them with their kernal driver thingamaboper, and restarted my Mandrake 9.1|system to

Re: [newbie] Link htdocs in Linux to htdocs in windows in the same computer

2004-06-11 Thread Ariestao1
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:52 pm, Marc Hultquist wrote: It depends on what windows you have installed, if its a windows that uses a fat32 file system then you are fine, however if you are using a windows that uses ntfs such as XP or 2000 etc, you wont really be able to do what you want, as Linux

Re: [newbie] Boot Floppy

2004-06-11 Thread evolt
Margot wrote: Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 June 2004 06:32 pm, Peter wrote: Hi all, I want to install Mandrake on a pc, But it will not boot from the CD, is there a way to make a bootable Floppy to load the CD? Peter Yes, Peter, you can. Check

Re: [newbie] Good PHP Editor

2004-06-11 Thread yankl
On Friday 11 June 2004 08:35 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: OOzy wrote: Hi all I know that I am asking alot of dump questions but I have to. I am switching from MS Win to Linux and I need to have all functionality of windows in Linux. Any how anybody knows a good PHP Editor? Have you

Re: multipart? was Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Huff
| This is a multi-part message in MIME format... | | =_1086900076-13954-3211-- With Kmail it looks just like any other post, with a message footer box at the bottom. That's how it looks for other posts. In Mozilla, it looks like any other mailing list message - with

Re: [newbie] Good PHP Editor

2004-06-11 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:11:49 +0300 OOzy disseminated the following: Any how anybody knows a good PHP Editor? urpmi SciTE -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org 20:45:18 up 9 days, 7:07, 6 users, load average: 0.14, 0.16, 0.15 +++ The philosophers have only

[newbie] fbpanel 3.8

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Huff
Hello, I've been away from upgrading for awhile, and though i'd try fbpanel 3.8 (i'm on 1.o unstable, now!) Anyway, i get the below when when compiling. The main error is: `G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL' undeclared (first use in this function) Anyone run into this, or know what the solution is (short of

[newbie] user login problems ...

2004-06-11 Thread RickS
Hi all, I cannot login as my normal user to any window manager or even at init 3 but if I su to ricks [bash 09:31 PM] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ricks]$ su ricks [bash 09:31 PM] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ricks]$ ll it will let me login but running an app ... [bash 09:31 PM] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ricks]$

Re: [newbie] user login problems ...

2004-06-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
RickS wrote: Hi all, I cannot login as my normal user to any window manager or even at init 3 but if I su to ricks [bash 09:31 PM] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ricks]$ su ricks [bash 09:31 PM] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ricks]$ ll it will let me login but running an app ... [bash 09:31 PM] [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] user login problems ...

2004-06-11 Thread RickS
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:26:26 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RickS wrote: Hi all, I cannot login as my normal user to any window manager or even at init 3 but if I su to ricks [bash 09:31 PM] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ricks]$ su ricks [bash 09:31 PM] [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] user login problems ...

2004-06-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
RickS wrote: thx Mikkel, There wasnt a nologin file in /etc .. and I can't find any error messages .. ?? or nothing in the logs .. I reboot and autologin doesn't work so it dumps back to login and thats where I would login to root. I also added a user that can access and start kde or fluxbox with

Re: [newbie] Electronic libraries

2004-06-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
John Richard Smith wrote: Anyone know whether Linux has the equivelant of elibrary or EText Reader ? Is there a Linux app(s) to work with the elibrary/EText Reader setup like there are in windblows ? John I have not found one that will read Microsoft format e-books. The best I have found is a

Re: [newbie] user login problems ...

2004-06-11 Thread RickS
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:01:28 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |RickS wrote: | | thx Mikkel, There wasnt a nologin file in /etc .. and I can't | find any error messages .. ?? or nothing in the logs .. I reboot | and autologin

Re: [newbie] user login problems ...

2004-06-11 Thread RickS
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:01:28 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |RickS wrote: | | thx Mikkel, There wasnt a nologin file in /etc .. and I can't find| any error messages .. ?? or nothing in the logs .. I reboot and| autologin doesn't

Re: [newbie] Email Client

2004-06-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:08:33 -0400 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't go for these new-fangled clients - it's elm for me ;-) There's one thing to say about elm - it's *fast*. I've used it on and off for years, and my fingers have developed memories for its keys. But for most stuff

Re: [newbie] Debian's Apt-Get or Redhat's RPM ???

2004-06-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 08:00:39 -0500 The Other [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suggestions for a package manager? The down side is that I have a 56Kb Modem to use to get the updates. Well, a package manager per se is really a database front end, and the database is either going to be what's in

Re: [newbie] Good PHP Editor

2004-06-11 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 yankl wrote: On Friday 11 June 2004 08:35 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: OOzy wrote: Hi all I know that I am asking alot of dump questions but I have to. I am switching from MS Win to Linux and I need to have all functionality of windows in

Re: [newbie] Cinelerra

2004-06-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:33:02 -0500 Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone get Cinelerra to run? I'm running Mandrake 10. Everytime I try to run Cinelerra I get Me neither. 1.1.8-1 from plf. I just installed it with urpmi. I had this thing working before, but never really did

Re: [newbie] Cinelerra

2004-06-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:33:02 -0500 Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone get Cinelerra to run? I'm running Mandrake 10. Everytime I try to run Cinelerra I get followup luckily, found a source rpm for it on ftp.club-internet.fr:/pub/linux/plf It's building now (found one

Re: [newbie] Print in 10.0 missing chrs

2004-06-11 Thread rikona
Hello Rob, Saturday, June 5, 2004, 11:45:12 PM, you wrote: RB On Tuesday 01 June 2004 11:41 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Rob, Since it is over the net, could samba be doing this? Any other ideas to get the first few chrs to print? RB Humm. Then it is probably Samba messing up or something like

[newbie] RE: Sound

2004-06-11 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
I have very happily been using 10.0 officical for a while now and haven't had a lot of problems til now. All of a sudden I am getting a message that states permission is not granted to /dev/dsp. I did a ls -s on it and it pointed to a simlink. I'm not sure where the problem is but here is a