No Pico? No Man? WTF?

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stizz

gorilla beta tester
Last login: Wed Feb 26 00:26:49 on ttyp1
[smokey:~] stizz% whoami
stizz
[smokey:~] stizz% cd /etc/cups
[smokey:/etc/cups] stizz% ls
apple.convs client.conf mime.convs ppd
apple.types cupsd.conf mime.convs.bak ppds.dat
certs cupsd.conf.old mime.types printers.conf
classes.conf interfaces mime.types.bak printers.conf.O
[smokey:/etc/cups] stizz% sudo pico mime.convs
Password:
sudo: pico: command not found
[smokey:/etc/cups] stizz% man pico
man: Command not found.
[smokey:/etc/cups] stizz% pico mime.convs
pico: Command not found.
[smokey:/etc/cups] stizz%


wtf?

no pico? no man?
 
profx% whereis pico
/usr/bin/pico
profx% whereis man
/usr/bin/man


see if they are there

profx% echo $path
/sw/bin /sw/sbin /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/X11R6/bin

see if the dirrectorys above include a path to pico
 
stizz - you'll need to have installed the BSD subsytem when you installed OS X to have those commands.
 
that may be it - I did not install the complete BSD subsystem when installing 10.2, so you may be onto something there. Is there a way to install what I need without reinstalling 10.2 again? Or more importantly, is there a way I can edit etc/cups/mime.convs without pico? I would like to just edit the files I need in TextEdit, however I cannot seem to locate the physical files themselves, even when logged into the finder as root.

The whole point being I need to edit several files in order to make a printer work on a crossplatform network http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021101062604548
 
Sure - load up the 10.2 install CD, and pick a custom install, then just pick to install the BSD subsytem and nothing else. Pretty easy :D
 
Originally posted by stizz
Last login: Wed Feb 26 00:26:49 on ttyp1
[smokey:/etc/cups] stizz% sudo pico mime.convs
Password:
sudo: pico: command not found
[smokey:/etc/cups] stizz% man pico
man: Command not found.
[smokey:/etc/cups] stizz% pico mime.convs
pico: Command not found.

no pico? no man?
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I don't have a Mac yet, but your problem may be that the configuration for the super user account is different than the config for administrator. These configs are loaded using files named .login and .tcsrc (names may vary on the Mac). On the systems I've worked on, the superuser's paths are very limited, so that you can execute only the core UNIX commands. Most admins wouldn't want you to run Pico when you're super user, for example. You should login as su, run chmod, logout, mod the file, then login as su and chmod the file back again.
 
Why not try vi?
Pico has a the bad habit of insering unwanted returns and wrapping text.
vi is alot nicer (file friendly) but does not have the menu display that pico has.
 
By running 'pico -w' you can disable the automatic reflowing for that editing session. I can't believe how long I went without knowing that.
 
Originally posted by davidbrit2
By running 'pico -w' you can disable the automatic reflowing for that editing session. I can't believe how long I went without knowing that.
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OH MY GAWD! I can't believe how long my entire company has gone without knowing that.
 
Hehe..."-w" is your friend. Another nice alternative to pico is nano. Most people who like pico, but not pico's license use nano. Vi scares me. I only use it when it's the only thing on the system and I can't install pico or nano or ee. :)

- G!mpy

Originally posted by MacMarshall
OH MY GAWD! I can't believe how long my entire company has gone without knowing that.
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in answer to your question about not needing pico, you could do this

cd /etc/cups
sudo open -e mime.convs

you can open any application as root but it's dangerous. This will open mime.convs in textedit (notice the -e flag on open).
 
Hmm, can someone confirm via ps that using 'sudo open' will actually launch an application as root? I seem to remember hearing that it just gives the open command root privileges, which then just opens the app as the invoking user, and thus, not as root.
 
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