Re: Linux vs. DOS

Matt,

Your Linux wizardry again got me over a hump and now I have run smack into
another one. the chmod command took care of the permissions and I must have
had a bad download as I downloaded the emc program again and reinstalled it
and now I have files in all of the directories.

My new problem is that when I execute run.64step378 I get a number of
"command not found" errors. In poking through the run.64step378 file it
looks like the problem is with the insmod command. If I try insmod at a
command line I also get "command not found" and in searching the drive I
find a bunch of copies of insmod.1 (the man page for insmod), but I cant
find the actual file. Is there a module I may have missed installing?

Thanks again.

Tim
[Denver, CO]

> The permission denied problem can be cured by doing:
>
> cd /usr/local/nist/emc
> chmod 777 run.64step378
>
> Do a 'man chmod' for more info on this command, but essentially you are
> giving yourself permission to execute this script file. The reason I
> supplied this script is that the scripts (like run.stepper) that come with
> the distribution aren't correct in several respects:
>
> 1. They don't load the schedule module.
> 2. The directories for the RT modules are wrong.
>
> Start up two terminal windows, cd to /usr/local/nist/emc and do 'less
> run.64step378' in one and 'less run.stepper' in the other. Scroll through
> the files and compare the lines that start with:
>
> insmod ...
>
> You'll see the differences right away. If you still have trouble with
> run.64step378 once you change the file permissions as above then check to
> make sure that the files referenced by the insmod lines actually exist. By
> the way, you need to be logged in as root to run the EMC program.
> If you have any other problems just call or write. If it works I'd love to
> hear about that as well...
>
> Matt Shaver
> (410) 521-3715
> mshaver@...