On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:05:14PM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote: > Steve Ingraham wrote: > >Yeah, well that makes two of us then it appears. I fully acknowledge to > >everyone in the world reading my posts that I don't know much of what I > >am doing when working in Linux. I try to read as much as I can about > >these systems and try to decipher what all the talk means but frankly I > >have a hard time following the rules of the road in this operating > >system sometimes. > > I can sympathise with that, but to me it sounds as if your predecessor > has left you with some serious problems: > > (a) an unmaintainable operating system which we can't help you with > (b) a private, undocumented "Install" command which we can't help you with I suspect he was simply running "install" (ginstall, from coreutils) not understanding what it does. That install does provide the error message Steve reported. -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department and Optical Sciences Center 520-626-1619 University of Arizona ECE 524G