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Hi,
When I open a terminal the first line is: bash: [: too many arguments
Then the prompt.
I had been trying too configure my usb scanner and also my cdrw (the cd writer is ide internal), so I'm not sure what I did exactly. Would it help to send the dmesg errors I get at start-up? I don't really understand too much of what I'm reading. I've been trying to work with Linux for a few years now and I still feel like a newbie.
Thanks for any help you can give.
TMitch70377
Hi Tink,
Thanks for the quick response!
Actually I've been operating with it like this for a year now. I'm not sure if it's hurting anything. But I just got my nerve up to tackle it again. I wonder if the linuxconf could be the problem? In /etc/rc.d/init.d is a line modified on 11/21/02 linuxconf -> /usr/lib/linuxconf/redhat/scripts/linuxconf*
It's displayed in light blue and green.
By the way, I'm using Mandrake 9.0 now.
Thanks,
Mitch
Originally posted by tmitch70377
Hi Tink,
Thanks for the quick response!
Yo, and no worries. :}
Quote:
In /etc/rc.d/init.d is a line modified on 11/21/02 linuxconf -> /usr/lib/linuxconf/redhat/scripts/linuxconf*
It's displayed in light blue and green.
That's fine, that's a symlink ... I can't tell you
where to look, though ... just go through
/etc, /etc/profile.d and /etc/rc.d and its
subdirectories, and check the contents of
the most recently modified shell scripts...
ls -ltr
will give them in the right order.
(newest last)
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