Re: D4X


Subject: Re: D4X
From: Adam Elkins (i-robot@gci.net)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 23:04:29 AKDT


civileme wrote:

>On Thursday 18 July 2002 07:28 pm, Greg Madden wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 17:15, Adam Elkins wrote:
>>
>>>I got Downloader for X. I instaled it. The thing I hate about rpm/tgz
>>>is, how do I run them? Whats the command? More so, where does it stick
>>>those things? Anyway, I got d4x, but don't know the command for it.
>>>Where should I look for it? Somewhere is /usr I assume...can;t find it.
>>>
>>>Adam
>>>
>>I use 'locate' to find things on my box. Locate searches a db of the
>>contents all the file systems mounted in your fstab file. You have to
>>create the db by running 'updatedb'. You can setup 'updatedb' to run as
>>a cron job to keep a current inventory of your mounted file systems.
>>So..
>>1. At a root prompt of your choice, # updatedb
>>2. At a root prompt of your choice, # locate <foobar>
>>
>
>
>But locate or slocate won't do much good if he doesn't know that the
>executable for d4x is 'nt'
>
>Civileme
>
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Thats a good tool, I'll remember that....I had no luck though, unable to
find an executable....

Adam

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