OS X Problems
When I try to go back into a different directory using the ".." command, it says permission denied, EVEN when i login as root.
Can I use a different x-window in OS X?
Is there a way to get a list of current users logged onto my system? And how do i kick somone off if they are logged on?
Thanks in advance
Can I use a different x-window in OS X?
Is there a way to get a list of current users logged onto my system? And how do i kick somone off if they are logged on?
Thanks in advance
Comments
Let me guess, you updated to Jag instead of archiving/clean install?
<strong>I have the same problem, and no, .. is a command, although cd .. does work.
Let me guess, you updated to Jag instead of archiving/clean install?</strong><hr></blockquote>
of course, why do you ask? loose all my prefs are you crazy?! and i'm notabout to drag over manually
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of course, why do you ask? loose all my prefs are you crazy?! and i'm notabout to drag over manually</strong><hr></blockquote>
This is exactly why Apple created the archive and install option, but I guess the knowledge of that was wasted on you.
Archive and install will install a new copy of OS X and migrate over your old prefs, documents, etc. It will then move the old sys folder somewhere else so you can copy over whatever the installer didn't catch.
..Maybe I'll run downstairs and see if it works in Solaris...
alias .. 'cd ..'
See the stuff in /usr/share/tcsh/examples for details on enabling this in your terminal.
just added alias .. 'cd ..' to my .cshrc and it works now... I wonder if Jaguar turns it off or something...
<strong>I feel your pain...even worse. 4GB drive.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Hah! For quite a few months, I was running from a Wallstreet with a 2 GB drive. Before that, until spring, it was an 8100 with a 1 GB drive. So I got ya beat! It sucked though
Of course, now, I'm kind of beating it to hell by getting a G4 tower with a 40 GB drive and then deciding that 40 GB is too small and getting an 80 GB drive.
In your home directory, edit the file ".cshrc", or create one if it does not exist using your favorite text editor(I *think* the .cshrc is sort of a startup script for your shell). Just add the line King wrote: alias .. 'cd ..' and save the file, exit the shell, relaunch, should work.
<strong>Geez that was too easy to fix... thanks King...
just added alias .. 'cd ..' to my .cshrc and it works now... I wonder if Jaguar turns it off or something...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Sort of.
Mac OS X 10.0 and 10.1 shipped with a custom .tshrc. I'm spacing on the guy's name because I haven't had coffee yet, but he was the first UNIX guru to head the Darwin team. 10.2 reverted to a standard .tshrc, so all the funky little aliases and settings "vanished." [edit: It was Wilfredo Sanchez' .tschrc, now archived in the "examples" directory given in a post further down.]
Also, I've never had any trouble booting X from a FireWire drive.
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and am i putting "alias .. cd .."
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am i putting "alias .. 'cd ..'"
<strong>can somone email me their cshrc because i dont have one, and not really sure what it is supposed to look like, and where to add alias cd ..
and am i putting "alias .. cd .."
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am i putting "alias .. 'cd ..'"</strong><hr></blockquote>
If you don't have on (it's hidden, so try looking with "ls .cshrc" to make sure it really doesn't exist), just open a terminal window, go to your home directory, and type or copy&paste the following:
[code]
echo alias .. \\'cd ..\\' > .cshrc
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Bye,
RazzFazz
<strong>That isn't working for me...still says permission denied. Not getting any kind of feedback after the command either.</strong><hr></blockquote>
that worked for me, try sudo (the code he posted)