Re: RH 6.2 install causes screen to explode

[Peter Evans <peter@example.com>]

Well, this is all very thrilling.

A. Sajjad Zaidi:

> '/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config' is a part of the 'XFree86-3.3.6' 
> package on RH 6.2 so it has to be there. If not, then X isnt 
> fully installed.

If I'm sure of anything, it's that X isn't installed. But I thought that
even if it wasn't, the bits that were necessary for it might have been.
(To use an MS-DOS analogy -- sorry! -- that perhaps the .ZIP files might
have been copied to suitable places.)  Or if they weren't copied, I'd
find them and install them.

Stephen Turnbull:

> Er, "find" is a power tool.

Fine.

> Syntax is

>    find [space-separated list of directories] -name '[wildcard]'

You can't just use it for finding a file? (I've even guessed that the
CD-ROM needs to be mounted, found out how to mount it, and mounted it.) Anyway,
I tried locate and was told that locate couldn't find its own database
called something or other (now scrolled off the top of my screen so I
don't remember) and 

| You need to run the '/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron' command
| (as root) to create the database

OK, OK,

cd etc/cron.daily

[Ooh, aren't I a clever boy?]

slocate.cron

[No, perhaps not so clever.]

slocate

So I now get more than a screenful of cryptic and mostly irrelevant
looking parameters. Again I don't see how I can scroll back. This
proggie seems unmentioned in *Linux in a Nutshell*.  Now what the
factfilledmanual? I mean, how do I run slocate so that I can run locate
so that I can actually locate something.

And can I somehow look at what has scrolled off the top of the screen?

(Warning: 497 more questions will follow!)

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