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YES, i guess I have been trying NOT to do that.....flying by the seat of my pants has gotten me this far, which is a working Linux box and no idea of how to effectively use it ")!! i am completely overwhelmed now, which is what I was hoping not to be by all of these tutorials. shoot, I wasn't doing anything else today anyway~~~ :)))) thanks for your replies, they are helpful and I appreciate it. David |
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are you saying that, wait... so ~ = Home Directory, not in just slang, but for real in the Linux command structure~! I guess I have to STOP using it for an exclamation point then in here! :)) also, then, ~/.local/share/Trash = a hidden "local" directory in the folder structure under the "Home" parent directory? so, /root = Home so, ~/.local is a hidden folder in /root? don't worry about answering my confusion. it is better to let a drowning person to wear themselves out first before attempting a rescue or they will drag you down with them! you and RichardCranium have done an exlemprary job of getting to the problem ---- i don't really understand the file structure of Linux!!! RichardCranium has given me a few reads, and since I am the anal type, that is just what I intend to do. Thank you for sticking with me to get me to this point. As I said earlier, this is "exactly" what I was trying to avoid. Not because I don't like to study but, "I" like to choose what to learn, not what I need to learn choosing me! That is too much like College. And other than IIKA, and girls, College was a major DRAG!!! Anyway, thank you! David A. |
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this is "WAY" helpful ..... the . and the .. "folders" i am familiar with as a way to cd.. to get back to root in Windows, apparently, same here in Linux. also, the ~ being = Home directory is very, very useful, thanks! when i logout i see david login: so, david is machine name then. that means that means when I see root@david:~# that means that david is higher in the parent/sibling structure than /root ! so, username = computer name ?? and when you type /home/bassmadrigal that means really /bassmadrigal/home or /bassmadrigal/root ?? so, when you type file structure, you type them "backwards"?? oh GOD ... in Windows, you give the machine a name. then you create a user- primary user. you log into the desktop, then open command and it gives you C:\ here, in LInux, you create a Primary User on installation. That effectively becomes BOTH! the machine name and the 1st user? then root@david is really /david/root !! is this correct? am i retarded? am I making too big of a deal about it? to me, it seems pretty "essential" that I understand this point! thanks for your help, david |
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...give me the afternoon, both of these will be read before Sunset. unless they are bigger than I can swallow in one day. then, I don't know. 2weeks minimum. you have my word I will "Study to show myself approved"! david |
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root@david /home/david: And all created users other than root will have their home directories physically under the /home/ directory with a subdirectory of their username. So, for me, it would be /home/bassmadrigal/ (you can change that to be whatever directory you want, but that's the default and almost everyone sticks with it unless they have a strong reason not to, or it's a user account for a system user, which may not even have a home directory). If you want to see all the user accounts and their home directories, you can view it in /etc/passwd. This is kinda like a text-based database. The various entries are separated by a colon. The first entry is the username, the second is a placeholder for the password, but that's no longer stored in this file. The third is the user ID or UID (in Slackware, the regular user IDs start at 1000, with the remaining being reserved for system users). The fourth is the group ID or GID. Most regular users will be assigned to the users group which has a GID of 100. The fifth section is typically the comment field, but can sometimes be used to store the user's full name, if added. The sixth field is finally the one that will show the user's home directory. The seventh and final field will show the user's default shell, typically /bin/bash. So, now for an example of my main user's entry in my computer's passwd file. Code:
jbhansen:x:1000:100:Jeremy Brent Hansen,,,:/home/jbhansen:/bin/bash You can use man 5 passwd to view the manpage on the /etc/passwd file. Quote:
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EDIT: Sorry for the ton of text. I didn't realize how much it was until I posted it. Hopefully I didn't dump too much on you. |
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my mind works in a radial, net type of thing. a question comes in, i go out like a net. it is exhausting. when I get clarity, it becomes one line to that knowledge to be retrieved, every time. what i am saying is, when I get clarity on a question, my CPU usage goes from 86% to 2 or 3%, so NO, you didn't dump too much on me. i am calmer right now than at any point this day! so "Thanks"~! i was able, from what you taught me to: 1.) login as my user = darledge in root result: darledge@david :/$ this clarified the other way as you presented. now I know that this probably would not be done unless you were doing Desktop Support in a Corporation but, was powerful in that it started to create in me that "I" am not root. root is root! 2.) and from earlier, on my own, I learned that: File System = Root and that Home = root therfore: the Root/root thing that got me in Trouble in the 1st place or that root or Home is a part of the greater File System which leads-out from a little of the knowledge on the 1st wiki you sent in the graph (graphs are very helpful to me) that helped lead to the 2.) discovery above. "RAMDISK" - ASU Rams, tech professor, 1981 or so, he wrote this language, my interaction with it existed on 5 1/4" floppies and I presume a mainframe somewhere nearby. I was damn good at it but, had it in my mind to be a businessman and didn't pursue it. I also had a Computer class in Spring 1977 at Trinity. At that point my head was not in the game and withdrew from the class. There was a dude that "lived" in that Computer lab. Don't remember what language they used. Or Programming. But, when I look back..."that was the dude" i knew that Succeeded in life!! Not the Jocks, not the Soches, not the Greasers....."that dude" is CTO somewhere laughing his ass off on the way home from work in his brand-new Maserati.... :))) |
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The filesystem starts at the root (/). The user that exists at the start and can make more is known as root. So, it doesn't have to be that confusing, if you squint your eyes and tilt your head just so. |
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"Thank You" for your kind reminder to watch my language. Please see my formal Apology in my Blog. Yes, my language is taught. I apologize as I didn't mean it to offend. My friends find it offensive if I don't cuss :)) Still, please see my blog for further points. And, thanks for the command as well. The Trash thing kinda got lost to me in all of the worry about being found guilty of offensive language in here. It seems to work fine now, or at least as far as I can tell. And, no thanks to the MSDOS thing, I know you meant it in only the kindest of ways, but Linux is much more fun~! :) You cannot defeat hate with hate. You have to use love to defeat hate. Martin Luther King Jr. David 10 out |
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Right, absolutely right. I found that if I held my mouth just .... "so", that it all seemed to work out just fine. Thanks for the Post. All of you are very kind to me, a Newbie, and with time, I shall return the favor to some Newbie in the future. Always Pay It Forward or the point was lost to begin with~! David Noob |
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"bassmadrigal" I am Sorry to come to you directly about this. Please tell me if I should go back out, in the future, to the Forum to find answers. But, a Google Search turned up #adduser and #passwd and I set up a new user darledge and it authenticates just swell~. But, when I try to run the xWindows program #startx i get the following: # xauth: time out in locking authority file //.serverauth.1140 and # xauth: time out in locking authority file //.xauthority then I have to ^z to escape out or just go make coffee and it seems to exit out all by itself eventually. i seem to have bumped up against xwindows internal authentication HAL by accident. is there something I have missed here? i mean, in adding a user. i don't remember having this trouble in 2004/5 with the Novell distro I was using at the time. and...thanks for all the time you have spent on me. some say, I am a lost cause. I find, that kind of sentiment just makes me TRY HARDER~! :)) david |
on what authority do you make this statement?
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please see definition #3.... now, do you have more authority than dictionary.com or are YOU just being an ARSE? david |
on what authority do you make this statement?
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please see definition #3.... now, do you have more authority than dictionary.com or are YOU just being an ARSE? david also, please see http://www.dictionary.com/browse/arse?s=t |
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However, to verify, can you post the output of the groups command? There should be like 5-10 groups assigned. But your timeouts in locking a file could be related to a few different things. To narrow those down, can you provide the output of ls -la ~darledge to see if there's any permission issues in the base of your home directory. |
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