Recent content by BenW

I've seen problems matching those symptoms before--my guess would be that (as blb suggested) your line-endings are off. If you still have the original scripts around, try running cat users.pl and so on. If my guess is right they'll show up as one collosally strange line. This is because...

Hm. I don't remember that being an issue in the PB, so perhaps it's changed, but perhaps I just used finger. In which case, try finger--I'm pretty sure it worked for Terminal logons before...

I installed the Developer Tools and instantly my life improved greatly--CVS, gcc, and all manner of Perl modules that were missing all showed up. If that doesn't work, you can find CVS and gcc at the Darwin site I mentioned above (and documentation at http://www.cvshome.org.) But I'm pretty...

Es ist aber ganz einfach... http://www.macwelt.de (könntest auch http://www.yahoo.de benutz haben). ;) (and if my colloquial German has fallen below the standards of any of my fellow macheads, please don't let me know) [edit: smilie was wrong!]

That sounds about right for the current versions--I read this as a slightly different question, which I'll answer as well (that way, whichever Zax meant, he gets his answer). Mac OS X Server, up to the end of last year, was a shipping, independent OS, one generation back from the current OS...

Which is pretty damned amusing when you consider that http://www.macworld.com redirects to macworld.zdnet.com ...

Root can unlock files, but only in the GUI, and a mechanism that that requires your physical presence at the machine to delete files does not measure up. I don't expect ever to have this problem (sysadminning is not what I do), but if I ever type "<code>sudo rm -rf...

You're pardoned. And I think your posts are getting increasingly combative and sneering--settle down some? There are plenty of forums out there already where I automatically ignore posts by certain people, I don't want this to become another one. And in answer to the <i>content</i> of your...

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to--implausible as it seems, neither as owner or root can I delete a locked file from the CLI. <code> % sudo rm unicode\ monstrosity.rtf override rw-r--r-- ben/staff for unicode monstrosity.rtf? y rm: unicode monstrosity.rtf: Operation not permitted </code>...

Well, I'm not sure that's entirely due to the paging issue--if I recall correctly, I started my reply, got sidetracked, then finished it and submitted it without checking if anybody else had posted in the meantime. Sorry about that--didn't mean to duplicate. I'm interested that you say...

Pardon me if I'm working from a misreading here, but it seems to me you're asking why apps in the Classic environment don't have network access. I don't know *why*, precisely, but I'm pretty sure that they don't, at least not in the PB version. Fire and Mail are Cocoa apps, they have full...

The first line is *not* strictly a comment, and for scripts to be executable independently (that is, for the server to execute them) it must be correct--it tells the calling program where to look for the program that parses the script. Try changing it if you like, see where it gets you... In...

Or it could be that some senior programmer at Apple put that in to mess with our heads. ;)

They moved it, but it's still there. http://www.apple.com/macosx/beta/feedback.html But I tend to agree that the sneaky details of Unix should only be accessible to those who are ready to deal with the sneaky details of Unix. On the other hand, if you're going to have to edit files in those...

Couldn't you just add it to the startup items list through the GUI? Or will that only work with GUI apps?