SWAT

[Daniel R. Kilbourne]

I believe you should do a 'make' first, then the 'make install'


At 02:16 PM 9/8/2000 +0000, Alex Morris wrote:
>Well, I figured out the problem while I was going through and trying some 
>of the items that were mentioned here.  The problem is that Netscape 
>sucks.  I tried running SWAT through Lynx and it crashed and burned, but 
>Lynx was kind enough to tell me *why* it crashed and burned.  Apparently 
>my "swat" executable was supposed to be in /usr/local/samba/bin but it was 
>residing in /usr/local/sbin (I think that's where it was...).  So, after 
>spending 2 or 3 minutes trying to figure out how to create a symbolic 
>link, I decided to simply mv the executable to the proper directory.  Now 
>SWAT runs.
>
>However, this brings up two questions for me:
>
>1.) How do I create a symbolic link?  I looked through some documentation 
>for "link" but when I try to do "link swat /usr/swat" or "link -s swat 
>/usr/swat", it just lists it's syntax and does nothing.
>
>2.) While running SWAT, I realized that my X drivers suck.  (I never 
>wanted to configure X, but because of SWAT, I decided it would be worth 
>it...)  So I tried to install the Mach64 server by doing a "make install" 
>in the proper ports directory.  It told me that it couldn't fetch 
>X335<something>.tgz .
>So I downloaded the X335<something>.tgz file, but could not figure out 
>where to put it for "make install" to figure out that it's already on the 
>computer.  I tried: /usr, /usr/ports, /usr/ports/X11-servers, 
>/usr/ports/X11-servers/XttyXF86srv-Mach64, and 
>/usr/ports/X11-servers/XttyXF86srv-Mach64/pkg -- every time "make install" 
>would say that it couldn't find the .tgz file and then try to fetch it.
>With no 'Net connection on that computer, it couldn't fetch, so it would 
>stop running.  Where do I put the .tgz files?
>
>Thank you all,
>Alex
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Daniel R. Kilbourne
daniel.kilbourne@voyager.net
Voyager.net Network Engineer