Re: EMC - now getting desperate!

>How do I make this thing stop, instead of scrolling out of sight, it is
>impossible to read, the way it is.

If you have a disk file (say, file.txt) that you want to view that is more
than a page, "cat file.txt" will cause the whole thing to scoll by at once
with no pauses. Not good. You can "pipe" the output of the cat command to
the "more" program, which will batch the output into screenfuls and wait for
you to hit enter or space before going on. The command for that would be
"cat file.txt | more"

But you may not have a disk file, as when you are executing a big bad script
which generates screenfuls of mostly useless information which scrolls by,
interspersed with the one line error message that will tell you what's
really going wrong. So how do I capture all that info to a disk file, so I
can use the "cat file.txt | more" technique?

Here's how: If you have a script file (say, "script.file" that you want to
execute, and you want to capture all of its output to a logfile, use this:
./script.file 2>&1 | tee logfile

After it has run, you can "cat logfile | more" at your leisure and see just
what happened.

>I think I saw it saw "no config file found."
>FX86setup did not work with any form of caps and non caps when typed in.

It's not FX86setup, its XF86setup. (Stands for X-Free). (Or possibly
XF86Setup, capital S. I'm going from memory here).

Don't get too discouraged, Bill, you're not alone in this frustating
endeavor. Everyone who has ever set up a linux box has gone through this the
first few dozen times. It's such a tedious experience that there is a
tendency to repress all memory of it quickly. ;->

Keep on hammerin'

Phil Plumbo
St. Paul, MN

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