[SuSE Linux] A weekend of frustration!
Hi there, I have just spent virtualy the whole weekend trying to get certain things to get working under my new SuSE Linux 5.2 installation and got very little accomplished. I got the soundcard to work, and printing to my Epson Stylus 600 works OK, but at a snail's pace. I still have the following problems: Problem 1: Can't get serial comms to work. Have tried minicom, seyon, ezppp and wvdial. None of these work. Basically, I can get my modem to dial and establish a connection to either of my ISP's but get no data throughput which means that I never get to the login prompt no matter how many times I tap the return key. I have only one option at this point: hangup - which also works fine!. Problem 2: Scripts don't run. Neither shell scripts nor perl scripts run despite the '#!/bin/sh' and '#!/usr/bin/perl' lines being present. I just get 'Command not found'. I accidentally found that I *could* execute scripts while logged in as a user other then root so it appears that only root cannot execute scripts. In both cases I have been working as root because I want to set things up. I am aware of the rule 'use root only for administrative tasks'. Once I am sure everything is working OK I will use a standard user account. Has anyone experienced or can help me resolve these proplems? I ended up doing a complete re-install twice to try and get these problems (particularly the comms one) resolved but no joy. At the moment my opinion of SuSE Linux is very low. I should not have to spend two full days installing and doing a basic config of an operating system! I would appreciate having my confidence in it restored! Regards. John Chajecki, Network Consultant (CNE4) LAN/Wan Team, IT Services, C&TS Town Clerk's Dept., Leicester City Council E-mail: chajj001@leicester.gov.uk, Tel:44 116 252 7661 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Hi, On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, John Chajecki wrote:
Scripts don't run. Neither shell scripts nor perl scripts run despite the '#!/bin/sh' and '#!/usr/bin/perl' lines being present. I just get 'Command not found'. I accidentally found that I *could* execute scripts while logged in as a user other then root so it appears that only root cannot execute scripts.
In both cases I have been working as root because I want to set things up. I am aware of the rule 'use root only for administrative tasks'. Once I am sure everything is working OK I will use a standard user account.
How did you attempt to start these scripts? For security reasons, root does not have the current directory in his PATH environment variable by default. If you want to run a script or executable from the current directory, you have to prefix it with "./". Hope that helps. LenZ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer S.u.S.E. GmbH <A HREF="mailto:grimmer@suse.de">mailto:grimmer@suse.de</A> Gebhardtstrasse 2 <A HREF="http://www.suse.de"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de</A">http://www.suse.de</A</A>> 90762 Fuerth, Germany - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Hi there John, Like yourself I have spent many hours trying to get SuSE 5.2 working on my system. I still haven't got it right! However one thing I have found that helps is to make a clean DOS boot disk then run Loadlin from that rather than drop out of windows 9x/NT. Apparently Windows powers up some cards, io(s) and irq(s) and doesn't release them when you warm boot into DOS. You won't need drivers for CDROM etc as these are provided by linux. This worked for my network card which was constantly being reported missing or in use. Hope this helps Nick nick.bowling@dial.pipex.com
-----Original Message----- From: owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com [<A HREF="mailto:owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com]On">mailto:owner-suse-linux-e@suse.com]On</A> Behalf Of John Chajecki Sent: 07 September 1998 10:17 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SuSE Linux] A weekend of frustration!
Hi there,
I have just spent virtualy the whole weekend trying to get certain things to get working under my new SuSE Linux 5.2 installation and got very little accomplished.
I got the soundcard to work, and printing to my Epson Stylus 600 works OK, but at a snail's pace. I still have the following problems:
Problem 1:
Can't get serial comms to work. Have tried minicom, seyon, ezppp and wvdial. None of these work. Basically, I can get my modem to dial and establish a connection to either of my ISP's but get no data throughput which means that I never get to the login prompt no matter how many times I tap the return key. I have only one option at this point: hangup - which also works fine!.
Problem 2:
Scripts don't run. Neither shell scripts nor perl scripts run despite the '#!/bin/sh' and '#!/usr/bin/perl' lines being present. I just get 'Command not found'. I accidentally found that I *could* execute scripts while logged in as a user other then root so it appears that only root cannot execute scripts.
In both cases I have been working as root because I want to set things up. I am aware of the rule 'use root only for administrative tasks'. Once I am sure everything is working OK I will use a standard user account.
Has anyone experienced or can help me resolve these proplems? I ended up doing a complete re-install twice to try and get these problems (particularly the comms one) resolved but no joy. At the moment my opinion of SuSE Linux is very low. I should not have to spend two full days installing and doing a basic config of an operating system! I would appreciate having my confidence in it restored!
Regards.
John Chajecki, Network Consultant (CNE4) LAN/Wan Team, IT Services, C&TS Town Clerk's Dept., Leicester City Council E-mail: chajj001@leicester.gov.uk, Tel:44 116 252 7661 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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