Dear Venky, Thank you for the solution. I will try this command and will ask for more help if required.
Thank you. Sivasubramanian. On 4/3/07, Venky <venkytv at gmail.com> wrote: > > Looks like root's home directory has been overwritten. This is > one of the many reasons why it is very dangerous to log in and > work as root. Running your email client inside the root account > is especially dangerous. > > Funny that a tarball extract should do this, however. You could > run a find in the home directory and see what files are left: > > cd && find . -print > > Unless things are seriously messed up and files other than those > in the root directory have been messed up, you might not need to > reinstall the OS. > > Venky. > > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 01:25:32AM +0530, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy wrote: > > hello > > > > I followed the link to tkman.sourceforge.net and it pointed to two file > > download links, I downloaded the files, and in the process of extracting > the > > files, something must have happened, my browser completely failed the > next > > time I logged in. I am not sure if it is because of the tkman download. > I > > tried to launch my browser from Java Desktop, from CDE, the browser did > not > > launch. There was an indication of any error message either... All this > when > > logged in as root. > > > > Within the 1.7 browser there is an email client, I have downloaded a lot > > messages and wonder what happened to the email file folder. > > > > Should I reinstall Solaris 10 ? Is there are way of repairing the > browser > > without going through the reinstallation routine ? If I should reinstall > the > > entire O/S is there a way of reninstalling without damaging the existing > > files and the partition / slicing structure ? > > > > Thank you. > > Sivasubramanian. > > > > > > On 4/2/07, Binu Jose Philip <binu.j.philip at sun.com> wrote: > > > > > >G N S <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> writes: > > > > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> > > >> On 3/30/07, Sriram Popuri <sgpopuri at gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> Recently someone was asking me about a man page browser. > > >> Found this interesting. Gives man pages of many OSes. > > >> > > >> http://modman.unixdev.net/ > > >> > > >> But I guess this searches only the synopsis like apropos. > > >> > > >> Anything on similar lines or better? > > > > > >If you use [X]emacs then "woman" can do the job. It does not need > > >an external formatter and does name completion. No apropos search. > > >But you get all editing bells and whistles on the man page also. > > > > > >Yes, not useful without the emacs. > > > > > >cheers > > >Binu > > > > > >> tkman ( http://tkman.sourceforge.net ) does a decent job (tk based > GUI > > >manpage browser on the system). > > >> Not exactly like the one above. This offers lot more functionality > than > > >man command. > > >> For those who find man command incovenient to browser through and > search > > >different commands, tkman might be > > >> useful. > > >> regards > > >> ~Shiv > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> ug-bosug mailing list > > >> List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > > >> List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > > >> List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > > >_______________________________________________ > > >ug-bosug mailing list > > >List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > > >List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > > >List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20070403/9ea12da7/attachment.html>
