Re: how do I delete not empty directories

1998-05-11 Thread Bill Mitchell
rm -rf directory_name try `man rm' for more info. On Sun, 10 May 1998, Keith wrote: > I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing > a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am > logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking someth

Re: Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR

1998-05-11 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Tristan Day wrote: > Thanks to all for all the help and ideas, but it still won't work: here's > what has gone wrong: > 'lilo -u /dev/hda' says "boot sector of /dev/hda does not have a lilo > signature" > > 'lilo -u' runs fine and says that it has restored the original MBR

Re: mgetty counting rings

1998-05-08 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Sat, 9 May 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Thu, 7 May 1998, David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 May 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: > > > > > Is there a way to have mgetty (or something else) counting the number of > > > RING's it receives on the modem line? I want it to write the results

Re: emacs won't install if /usr/local is read-only

1997-07-05 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > >My /usr/local mounted read-only when I install emacs. The package keep > >complaining about /usr/local is mounted read-only. > > packages are not allowed to store files into /usr/local. However, the > emacs package is installing only directories: