cannot find files or directories

[Verde Denim]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Milos Mandaric <mandzo18 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 16:55 -0400, Verde Denim wrote:
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> > Could someone tell me why which and whereis cannot find a program
> > which has just been installed?
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> > I just installed xCHM. If I go to the menu editor I find the name of
> > the program without a path (presumably because it can find the file in
> > the path).
> >
> > But, I have a couple of chm files in an additional hard disk mounted
> > as /usr3, and neither xCHM nor firefox can see this.
> > ( I tested ff by going to file --> open, and the directory does not
> > appear).
> >
> > I tried running updatedb after the install, but the program is still
> > not locate-able with either 'which' or 'whereis' ...
> >
> > What am I missing?
> >
> > Jack
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> For the first problem, when you run xCHM from menu, run in console:
> ps aux | grep xCHM


milos - i'm an idiot... the menu item and title of the app is xCHM. looking
at the process table when it runs shows "/usr/bin/xchm" ...

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> For the second, you probably didn't do something right in /etc/fstab,
> what you get when you do:
> ls -l / | grep usr3
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And I'm an even bigger idiot... I'm trying to resolve about 6 little
annoyances at once, so I was ssh'ed onto the second box in one termina and
in a terminal on the first box in the other terminal. I would run 'ls /usr3'
on the _second_ ubuntu box (where /usr3 is mounted) and see it. And then I
would try to do something such as copy the files from that directory _in the
first terminal_ which is connected to a different machine! - how n00b is
that!

If I could get ssh working on gnome, I probably wouldn't have run into the
second problem at all, but the gnome network connect to another system
doesn't seem to want to connect, either through finding the other system on
the LAN or through explicitly trying to connect via ssh.

Regards,

Jack

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