Thanks to all of you who tried to help here - I think I sussed it once I finally sorted out the other problems I was having.
Once I was able to open the file it contained a plain text file like this [Desktop Entry] Icon=001_star_butterfly So I assume that this is a file dropped there by the Linux gui (Mandrake in this case) to show how the directory will appear in file listings. I assume that I was unable to copy it because the OS had a lock on it - things were going very screwy. As for their not being hidden files, only those that don't show in LS by default - a semantic difference at best, but I take the point on board - when visiting the land of Linux do as the penguins do :-) Thanks everyone Kevin Lawry -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Schlesinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 May 2005 20:04 To: Administrator Subject: Re: [Unattended] Just a quick question for the Linux experts Hello Kevin, Kevin Lawry wrote: >A little off topic, but I am having to copy my unattended install >directories off of my Linux server onto a W2K one - I have a failing >motherboard so my choices are limited. > First of all, what install directories are you talking about? The ./unattended/install directory, where directories like site, scripts, linuxaux, lib, ... reside in? >I am not much of a Linux person, and the copy is tripping up on a file >named .directory in my OS tree - I understand that the leading. > Hm, never heard of this file. Any errors from cp, after it's exiting? Have you already tried to move this file to some other location on your linux system? Are you actually sure that this is a file, not a direcotry? Run 'file' from a shell and give it the full '.directory' path as argument. Check what it says. What does 'ls -all /path/to/the/.directory' say? >Makes it a hidden file, but what is it there for and is it important? > Well, AFAIK there ain't such a thing like a hidden file on linux systems. They are just not displayed with the default 'ls' parameters the most distributions come with. Just FYI... regards, stefan. -- Stefan Schlesinger ////////////////////////////////////////// //////// [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG-ID: 0x78E2DE1A +43.676.4911123 ////// > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
