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Re: [cobalt-users] Midnight Commander

Hi again Mark,

I see you haven't given up. :-)


Yes , Pico......I see that, It is for advanced users, MC is easy to use when
you are not sure
of what you are doing like me. I hope to work up to Pico.
No, pico is easy, really! Remember one little detail: Ctrl-X will get you out of it. Choosing "No" [N] will not mess with your file.
My advice, btw, would be to always use "pico -w". The "-w" switch turns word wrapping off.
Another tool, which behaves much like pico, is nano. You can retrieve nano's src.rpm from http://www.nano-editor.org. "su -" to root, issue "rpm --rebuild nano-[version].src.rpm" and when that's done, issue "/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/nano-[version].i386.rpm". Done! It is that easy. Be sure to delete (back up?) all the rpms as they take up valuable disk space. 

Nano is light weight and thus *fast*.
Another tip (for next week) would be to install "screen". It can save your life. 


It looks like
their is no PKG
of MC for the raq.
That is correct. There are pkgs for some very essential programs (MySQL, PHP, webalizer, etc.) to make your life easier. mc is not among those. Learn rpm and you will be absolutely fine. Trust me, I have been there. 

Wait a minute... don't trust me: research! :-)


I think one has to be set up because the raq 4i like I
have
has a little different redhat 6.2 with no keyboard, mouse ect.
Ah, valid point indeed regarding the keyboard/mouse bit. Good news: you don't need them at all, not with Cobalt anyway and with any *nix system you only need a keyboard when installing the os.
If I may be so rude: what's your (operating system) background? It might make answering your questions easier for the group.
As for a pkg for mc: I think it would be better if the Sun/Cobalt developers didn't build a pkg for that. When run as root, the program can be very dangerous. Learn some other dangerous programs instead: cp, mv, rm, pico/nano/vi, tar/gzip/bzip2. I was a fan of mc, until I dug into the man pages and now I don't use/need it anymore. I made too many mistakes using it. That's not mc's fault, but totally mine. ;-)
If you learn your way around mc, you'll be fine on almost any *nix system and seasoned sysadmins won't laugh at you.
There have been discussions about good Linux books on this list, btw. Check out http://www.oreilly.com and http://www.newriders.com for some great titles. 

Did you get ssh running already?

Good luck... Nico :-)
P.S. My apologies if none of the above makes sense. I am enjoying a very, very mean beer whilst typing this...