From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 28 18:37:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.jps.net (smtp6.jps.net [209.63.224.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6BDE14CE3 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 18:37:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ulairi@jps.net) Received: from default (208-237-196-143.irv.jps.net [208.237.196.143]) by smtp6.jps.net (8.9.0/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA03690; Fri, 28 May 1999 18:37:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ulairi" To: "Bart Trzynadlowski" Cc: "Questions" Subject: RE: odd minor problems Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 18:36:38 -0700 Message-ID: <001301bea973$b1d4d080$8fc4edd0@default> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990528180832.00870940@powernet.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 | Hi, | Sorry for the constant barrage of stupid questions, but | I'm finally | starting to get into this stuff although I am still a total newbie :) | Thanks for the support so far! It really helps! | | When I use whereis to find a file this always happens: | | /whereis of | Warning: couldn't stat file /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/man! | of: | | This happens as root or as a user, what does it mean? Means the file /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/man that the CATMAN tries to access is no there. Need to find what says it's supposed to be there and change it :) | | | And if I am in a user account and I try to "su" or "su root" | this happens: | | /home/btrzynadlowski%su | su: you are not in the correct group to su root | | What is the "correct group" then? from "man su": Only users who are a member of group 0 (normally ``wheel'') can su to ``root''. If group 0 is missing or empty, any user can su to ``root''. | | And it always says I have new mail. When I go into mail I | find 17 messages | from various dates and times and they're subject and bodies | are the same. | Here is the subject: | | Nvi saved file .cshrc | | The system places all of these in my mailbox, but why? because you're root :) do "rm /var/mail/root" and you cleaned out your mail box :) | | And last but not least... how come I can mount my cd9660 | cdrom in 4 ways: | | mount -t cd9660 /dev/wcd0a /cdrom | mount -t cd9660 /dev/wcd0c /cdrom | mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0a /cdrom | mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom | | Why are wcd0a, wcd0c, acd0a, and acd0c all the same? Just out of curiosity, why is that a problem? In any event, the reason you can do that is because the IDE CDROM you have is technically a device on the wd0 controller, so it's there. It is, in my understanding, a "atapi CD" device - hence acd0a device. the "c" variation are just different slices - for a CD, I do not think that makes a diff (then again, I could be WAY off, like I usually am) :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.0.2i iQA/AwUBN09DklR8Yh25VFLEEQKYdwCgtJtM78f+hlg7jVSRiQABE8J4wGIAoNiJ 8jTnEQIWknDWPxbbN8U/VrQ2 =v956 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message