did I fuck up something or is this on the IT dept end?

2/8/2007 2:12:31 AM

Care to be a bit more vague? *laughs*.

2/8/2007 7:06:15 AM

How about subtraction, does it still work?

2/8/2007 8:50:33 AM

The add command works just fine. Can you provide more details about what you're trying to do? Alternately, why not contact the Helpdesk for more specific assistance?

2/8/2007 10:44:56 AM

Its the damndest thing. I just want to add whatever software package I need to the /ncsu path and it still goes fine on and of the Linux machines but for some reason just says it doesn't recognize the command on the Sun machines.

BTW, last time I had to try and contact IT for something was a nightmare, took me weeks to get a minor answer from them

2/8/2007 11:31:08 AM

ah sounds like the "if we ignore him maybe he'll go away" IT group idealism. What version are the sun servers running of unix?

What are you loggin in as? Root?



[Edited on February 8, 2007 at 12:56 PM. Reason : !]

2/8/2007 12:55:50 PM

You think the NCSU computers have a root sun login for people to use?

Just type the add command by itself, it just might not have that software package you need to use.
If you want to use it on a Sun machine, and it is in fact not a bug, you can remote log in to a linux machine from the Sun and use it that way.

2/8/2007 1:17:32 PM

^^Yeah, I don't think thats really relavent Raige

^ the add by itself gives me command not found, also it doesn't give me a man page for add when I do that

I figured remote login might have been an option but its just a pain in the ass

2/8/2007 1:25:38 PM

^ He didn't say it was NCSU stuff. Might be his own dev stuff at work. Sometimes security settings limit what kind of software can be installed if the IT group set it up and manage it. They can limit commands available per user account level.

Usually when people are talking about installing stuff on unix it's not at NCSU anymore. Mostly labs are 20 windows boxes with like 2 sun stations. I didn't want to assume anything.

[Edited on February 8, 2007 at 2:42 PM. Reason : !]

2/8/2007 2:42:07 PM

this may seem like a random idea, but what does your command prompt look like when you've logged in?

is it a standard unity% or eos% prompt, or something else?

2/8/2007 2:46:10 PM

SSH into login.ncsu.edu and run "/usr/local/bin/init_dotfiles" to repair your dotfiles on Solaris.

From:
http://help.ncsu.edu/solutions/all/546.php

2/9/2007 12:20:46 AM

Quote :

" the add by itself gives me command not found, also it doesn't give me a man page for add when I do that"

That makes sense, because I was thinking the Sun machines didn't even have an add command, but I wasn't sure

Last time I checked, the linux remote server was remote-linux.eos.ncsu.edu which you should be able to access from anything with an X-windows server (if you want gui).

edit: I just tried both the linux and sun servers, and they both actually let me do "add". When I type add by itself, it comes up with the name of some available packages.

[Edited on February 9, 2007 at 12:36 AM. Reason : ]

2/9/2007 12:33:12 AM

^^Thats the ticket

Many thanks, I bet I screwed something over last semester between some cleaning and some shell programming

2/9/2007 1:52:40 AM