wrecked_porsche Posted August 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Its for my Final Year Engineering Thesis project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBLoudG20 Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Undergrad or Grad? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrecked_porsche Posted August 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 This damn thing is giving me soo much trouble. It should be straight forward and trouble free. I just can't figure out why it keeps telling me the directory is not empty. As you guys can see, it is indeed empty. I also don't get why its keeps messing with the "/bin/ls" directory. I tried to look into the "install" file but there is no way I can edit or see its contents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrecked_porsche Posted August 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Undergrad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBLoudG20 Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 What is the host distribution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 and you did the mv /opt/BlueCat /opt/BlueCat.someothername Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrecked_porsche Posted August 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 I'm running on Ubuntu 8.04.1 if that's what you meant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrecked_porsche Posted August 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Yeah, I did exactly as you instructed me to: mv /opt/BlueCat /opt/BlueCat.broken_ferrari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 I'd go to your professor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrecked_porsche Posted August 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Yeah, I'm gonna go see him tmrw. My eyes are twitching and I've only had 2~3 hours of sleep each night for the past 3~4 days... I have headache right now. EdipisReks asked to type: rm -rf ~/* What does that do btw? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBLoudG20 Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Yeah, I'm gonna go see him tmrw. My eyes are twitching and I've only had 2~3 hours of sleep each night for the past 3~4 days... I have headache right now. EdipisReks asked to type: rm -rf ~/* What does that do btw? Removes your root directory. I think Ubuntu is one of the few distros that will actually let you do that, unless they fixed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 not your root directory, your home directory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBLoudG20 Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 not your root directory, your home directory Whops didnt see the tilde. Though in a fairly famous bug, ubuntu will let you 'rm -r /' As it should, dammit I have root privledges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrecked_porsche Posted August 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 it was me being mean. But yeah, I would have deserved it though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 that's not a bug, every unix should allow that. Unix shouldn't protect you from being a moron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBLoudG20 Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 that's not a bug, every unix should allow that. Unix shouldn't protect you from being a moron. I agree, but its built in nowadays. I'd try right now, but my boss wouldn't be happy if it worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrecked_porsche Posted August 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Dew eet... Not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 find / -exec \>\{\}\; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrecked_porsche Posted August 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 K, guys, thanks once again for trying to help me out. I appreciate you spending the time to help me try and figure this thing out. My lecturer is not gonna be happy with my "progress" tomorrow, but I can't take it anymore, I have to get some rest. Its almost 11pm here and I've only had about 3 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours... Have a great day/afternoon/evening guys, I'm off to bed. I'll have another go at it tmrw morning. In the meantime if you guys have any ides, please post in this thread. Thank you sooo much once again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 drop out of school, and get a job at starbucks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrecked_porsche Posted August 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 find / -exec >{}; What does that do? Will try it out tmrw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrecked_porsche Posted August 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 drop out of school, and get a job at starbucks That's plan C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 without the \s it doesn't do anything, with them, it's a very efficient lossy compression scheme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvdunhill Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 find / -exec >{}; lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krrm Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 I think I have seen similar things before, do you have correct permissions in the /opt/BlueCat directory? I can Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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