A Ghoast in the machine

bograt · 01-31-2005, 09:37 AM

Hi peeps

I have a rather annoying problem, no! not hemeroids
I have a CD writter and a DVD-RW and each time I close the door a few moments later
they open so now I have a system where the doors are constantly out.

What is the reason and how can I stop it happening?

Thanks for any help.

qwijibow · 01-31-2005, 11:11 AM

Hmmmmm.. strange.

here' a bit of a hack...

updatedb
locate eject | grep bin

does it find any prgrams in a bin folder named "eject"

whatever is ejecting your disk drives is probably doing it with this porgram, rename it to "eject-renamed"

then have a look in your ctrl+atl+F1 console and system logs for any porgrams sending "eject command not found" errors, then when you know whats doing it, you can start working out why...

change eject back to its origonal name afterwards.

bograt · 01-31-2005, 11:21 AM

hi where do I add the command updatedb? entered it as root and in terminal and in both cases it comes up command not found.

Not to clever with command lines yet so please bare with me.

Snipersnest · 01-31-2005, 11:23 AM

its in the /usr/sbin I believe... but mine worked fine on the straight command line...

bograt · 01-31-2005, 11:38 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Snipersnest
its in the /usr/sbin I believe... but mine worked fine on the straight command line...

Ok went through root tried updatedb again ( no luck ) went into /usr/sbin looked around but can't find

eject | grep bin

Just typed grep bin in command but nothing is happening but the drives are enjoying themselves.

So something works. Any other ideas for sorting this???????

cadkins · 01-31-2005, 12:30 PM

hmm...I think I have to put a space between update and db.

so update db

-I'll go check

Snipersnest · 01-31-2005, 12:33 PM

nah it is updatedb ...I just tried it when I was home at lunch. It still works for me on the command line as root. I logged in as root, I didn't su.

cadkins · 01-31-2005, 12:35 PM

yep.........you're right. updatedb. need to keep my cheatsheet close at hand

bograt · 01-31-2005, 12:59 PM

Nope! via root entered this and got this

Password:
linux:/home/dad # updatedb
bash: updatedb: command not found
linux:/home/dad #

& in ordinary terminal

dad@linux:~> updatedb
bash: updatedb: command not found
dad@linux:~>

BTW I am the only one who uses Suse and am continuously logged in as root.

Snipersnest · 01-31-2005, 01:12 PM

so dad = root??? That makes no sense at all to me. I always though by logging in as root the username was replaced with root@localhost rather than dad@localhost ...Am I wrong?

MylesCLin · 01-31-2005, 01:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by bograt

BTW I am the only one who uses Suse and am continuously logged in as root.

Bograt, people don't login as root all the time because if you fuck something up, you fuck something up.
They don't just do it because it separates user data.

Do NOT, I repeat do NOT login as root at all times.

qwijibow · 01-31-2005, 01:52 PM

in other words, you dont have slocate installed....

should have surgested this first.. oops.. use
"whereis eject"

bograt · 01-31-2005, 03:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Snipersnest
so dad = root??? That makes no sense at all to me. I always though by logging in as root the username was replaced with root@localhost rather than dad@localhost ...Am I wrong?

Sorry making assumptions as in the desktop when I go to start menu there is only an option for terminal in the drop down boxes no root icon i go through terminal and select new root hope that clarifies this I just assumed that dad was root?? is something missing?? I'll check back for replies in a bit.

Ta

Ok downloaded slocate and shadow-utils and installed waiting for guidance.

Snipersnest · 01-31-2005, 03:35 PM

Yeah you need to log out and login as root... your logged in as a user... which is what I thought. Just press CNTL ALT F1 and login...to get back to your X desktop its CNTL ALT F7 or F6...

Let me know what happens once you login as root and try updatedb

bograt · 01-31-2005, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Snipersnest
Yeah you need to log out and login as root... your logged in as a user... which is what I thought. Just press CNTL ALT F1 and login...to get back to your X desktop its CNTL ALT F7 or F6...

Let me know what happens once you login as root and try updatedb

Ok did that and got this message

slocate could not find the group slocate in the catagory /etc/group file

Fatle error: this is a result of the missing or corupt group file

I've just installed slocate so it should find it

Update no wonder installed slocate for MDK shit does anyone have a link for suse 9.1 i586???? rpm