no dir command
I just installed slackware to see what it would be like, I am very new to linux so I was not expecting to get everything configured right. I even expected to get a little frustrated.
I was just looking around and playing in the shell. I used the dir command in the beginng just fine, five minutes later it would not work, "command not found". Why would it behave so stangely? |
What exactly did you do?
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Ehh...
:confused: But for future reference: use "ls" instead. :) -zsejk |
I tried startx, which did not work. I used the command #adduser shane. The dir command does not work in user or root shell? That is all I remember?
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Forget about the dir command, that's like...DOS. :) As zsejk said, use ls. As for startx...did you configure your XF86Config? For that, use xf86config or xfree86setup. And why are you mentioning that you used the adduser command? :)
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kernal asked what I did prior to my dir command stopping working. adduser was what I rember doing last. That must have been the problem. When I booted my machine this morning, I logged in as root, then my dir command worked. After su shane it no longer worked. If I rember correctly, I had to chose a shell for my new user? I think that is where the problem must have came from.
This morning I used x86config(still not working), I do not have /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup. just now I was looking at my slack partition(have it mounted from redhat) I have an xfree86setup, is this the same thing? |
With Mandrake, dir has been aliased to ls.
It seems your distro does the same. By creating a user manually, chances are that alias isn't included in that user's profile file. So if you put the same line [alias dir='ls' in bash] in the .bashrc file, you'll be just fine. But you should use ls! |
that makes sence, thanks everyone
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This is the easiest way to configure X that I have found:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...981#post515981 |
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