Re: [LUG] I think I've broken my Linux and please excuse my stupidity.

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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jon davey wrote:
| Hi everyone, as the subject line says I think there's something wrong
with my
| system.  Before I discovered the propper comand for setting my clock I
| mistakenly attempted to install a gcc library from a tarball having
| misunderstood instructions from a web site.  I think I may have been
folowing
| the "server" instructions for the instillation of NTP instead of "user".
| Conciquently commands like #find and #locate arent working and there is
| apparently nothing in # /mnt/cdrom when there *is* in fact a cd in there.
|         Does anyone know what I may have done?
| Thanks in advance for the descemination of any knoweledge.
| J-D
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ok, what happens when you type the following;

cd /usr/bin
ls

do you get a load of files ?

if so what happens in;

ls -lagh /usr/bin/locate

(copy/paste please)

Should give us a few more pointers !!

Neil
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