Robert Benjamin wrote:
On 3/29/2013 3:31 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Robert Benjamin benjie1@cox.net wrote:
looked in /var/log/yum.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log permission denied chmod a+x OK got list of time stamped and at bottom I tried yum install one of the items there. Got 'no package name '.
You need to do most of this as root. Carefully... I am logged in as root
For administration, either log in as root, or sudo -s, which will make you root (but leave a trail in the logs of what you did... which might be helpful for oopses.
Just about everything in /var/log is root-only readable. You shouldn't change that, for security reasons. <snip>
Tried again to find .X0-lock and no luck. Hope I didn't make things worse.
Right. One of the few things that really annoys me about Linux is that the old std, at least where I worked, for ll was ls -laF, *not* ls -lF. I really *do* want to see hidden files, and the permissions/ownerships of the directories I'm looking at.
If you'd find that convenient, edit your .bashrc, or whatever, to add alias ll="ls -laF"
I've also not seen anywhere that h=history wasn't the case, except for linux.... <snip>
Yum update said no packages set for install and yum install (from time stamped items) said 'no package available' with the name and numbers from a time stamped line picked at random.
Your yum remove command may also have been interpreted oddly if you had the space after /tmp. Normally you would just give the base package name to install, stopping before the -version-number part. For example if your log says yum removed gnome-disk-utility.i686 0:2.30.1-2.el6 you would get it back with yum install gnome-disk-utility.
I never got a nice neat list lie what you have above .Maybe I hadanother error when I tried to look in /var/log/yum.log What is the best command to use to look in here?
tail /var/log/yum.log or view /var/log/yum.log
DO NOT EDIT IT... which is why I used view, to default to uneditable. You can, of course, force it, but it warns you.
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