Linux Gurus, I need some help, please....

[wrecked_porsche]

Its for my Final Year Engineering Thesis project.

[JBLoudG20]

Undergrad or Grad?

[wrecked_porsche]

This damn thing is giving me soo much trouble. It should be straight forward and trouble free. I just can't figure out why it keeps telling me the directory is not empty. As you guys can see, it is indeed empty.

I also don't get why its keeps messing with the "/bin/ls" directory. I tried to look into the "install" file but there is no way I can edit or see its contents.

[wrecked_porsche]

Undergrad

[JBLoudG20]

What is the host distribution?

[grawk]

and you did the mv /opt/BlueCat /opt/BlueCat.someothername

[wrecked_porsche]

I'm running on Ubuntu 8.04.1 if that's what you meant?

[wrecked_porsche]

Yeah, I did exactly as you instructed me to:

mv /opt/BlueCat /opt/BlueCat.broken_ferrari

[grawk]

I'd go to your professor

[wrecked_porsche]

Yeah, I'm gonna go see him tmrw.

My eyes are twitching and I've only had 2~3 hours of sleep each night for the past 3~4 days... I have headache right now.

EdipisReks asked to type:

rm -rf ~/*

What does that do btw?

[JBLoudG20]

Yeah, I'm gonna go see him tmrw.

My eyes are twitching and I've only had 2~3 hours of sleep each night for the past 3~4 days... I have headache right now.

EdipisReks asked to type:

rm -rf ~/*

What does that do btw?

Removes your root directory. I think Ubuntu is one of the few distros that will actually let you do that, unless they fixed it.

[grawk]

not your root directory, your home directory

[JBLoudG20]

not your root directory, your home directory

Whops didnt see the tilde. Though in a fairly famous bug, ubuntu will let you 'rm -r /'

As it should, dammit I have root privledges.

[wrecked_porsche]

it was me being mean.

But yeah, I would have deserved it though...

[grawk]

that's not a bug, every unix should allow that. Unix shouldn't protect you from being a moron.

[JBLoudG20]

that's not a bug, every unix should allow that. Unix shouldn't protect you from being a moron.

I agree, but its built in nowadays. I'd try right now, but my boss wouldn't be happy if it worked.

[wrecked_porsche]

Dew eet...

Not!

[grawk]

find / -exec \>\{\}\;

[wrecked_porsche]

K, guys, thanks once again for trying to help me out. I appreciate you spending the time to help me try and figure this thing out.

My lecturer is not gonna be happy with my "progress" tomorrow, but I can't take it anymore, I have to get some rest. Its almost 11pm here and I've only had about 3 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours...

Have a great day/afternoon/evening guys, I'm off to bed. I'll have another go at it tmrw morning. In the meantime if you guys have any ides, please post in this thread. Thank you sooo much once again!

[grawk]

drop out of school, and get a job at starbucks

[wrecked_porsche]

find / -exec >{};

What does that do? Will try it out tmrw.

[wrecked_porsche]

drop out of school, and get a job at starbucks

That's plan C.

[grawk]

without the \s it doesn't do anything, with them, it's a very efficient lossy compression scheme.

[luvdunhill]

find / -exec >{};

lol

[krrm]

I think I have seen similar things before, do you have correct permissions in the /opt/BlueCat directory? I can