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[SiriusB]

EDIT:

Nevermind, I mis-read what you were getting at. I thought you were adding stuff to the fahmon file. my bad

 

[SiriusB]

I also get the feeling that there are 2 or 3 ways at doing everything (some more user friendly that others) And that typo's either mean it doesn't do anything (love that arrow key retype function) or does something quite different

Most of the different ways of doing stuff is down to how complex you make your commands.

For instance a new person may use several commands to do something. A more experienced user will probably string commands together using the pipe symbol.

For instance, if you had a file called filename.tar.gz

You could decompress that file like so:

gunzip filename.tar.gz  #unzips the gz bit leaving filename.tar
tar xvf filename.tar #untars the file

However, a more experienced user would probably use:

gunzip filename.tar.gz | tar xvf -

This does the unzip command, and then pipes the output [the file in this case] into the second command [tar xvf -]. The hyphen [-] is a placeholder for the file you are working on. Saves you typing the file name twice. A good thing too since Linux filenames always tend to be along the lines of "someprogramV23-0.11.2982.111.tar.gz" or something equally stupid.

If there are lots of commands it can take just as long to type out the piped command. So if it is something commonly done you can write a script which does all the work for you. [I myself have written a script for decompressing files, all I need to do is pass the file to the script and it will work out what type of file it is and then do the appropriate trickery to decompress it. There are lots of little programs like this that already come with Linux so it is worth going through the man pages from time to time and see if there is already a command for something you are trying to do.

 

[shadowscotland]

Well I followed the script and now have a fahmon.sh icon on my desktop but all it does is show a txt file with this

#!/bin/sh
cd ~/fahmonb5/src
./fahmon

 

[uncle_fungus]

Well I followed the script and now have a fahmon.sh icon on my desktop but all it does is show a txt file with this

#!/bin/sh
cd ~/fahmon5/src
./fahmon

Make it executable, right click and change permissions.

See the bottom of my installation page here: http://fahmon.fahinfo.org/articles/installingfahmon/index.html

 

[shadowscotland]

Make it executable, right click and change permissions.

See the bottom of my installation page here:

Looks like i missed soem script.
Did the right click thing - ticked box - it opened dialog box - clicked run - and it stoped

Edit: going to try the script now

 

[uncle_fungus]

gunzip filename.tar.gz | tar xvf -

Hehe, a more experienced user would do away with gunzip altogether and messing around with pipes. Why use two commands when 1 will do.

a simple:

tar xzvf filename.tar.gz

would do the trick. And if you have filename.tar.bz2 (or .tbz2), simply switch 1 letter:

tar xjvf filename.tar.bz2

 

[SiriusB]

Well it was only an example. And I am not quite good enough to count myself as experienced

 

[shadowscotland]

stephen@lemonman:~$ chmod +x #/fahmon.sh
chmod: missing operand after `+x'
Try `chmod --help' for more information.
stephen@lemonman:~$ cat > fahmon.sh << EOF
> #!/bin/src
> ./fahmon
> EOF
stephen@lemonman:~$ chmod +x ~/fahmon.sh
stephen@lemonman:~$ ~/fahmon.sh
bash: /home/stephen/fahmon.sh: /bin/src: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Edit - don't worry - used wrong folder name

 

[uncle_fungus]

stephen@lemonman:~$ chmod +x #/fahmon.sh
chmod: missing operand after `+x'
Try `chmod --help' for more information.
stephen@lemonman:~$ cat > fahmon.sh << EOF
> #!/bin/src
> ./fahmon
> EOF
stephen@lemonman:~$ chmod +x ~/fahmon.sh
stephen@lemonman:~$ ~/fahmon.sh
bash: /home/stephen/fahmon.sh: /bin/src: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

Edit - don't worry - used wrong folder name

There's no need to chmod right at the beginning, since the file doesn't even exist at that point. (and remove the #/ too)

Second, your catting should look like this:

stephen@lemonman:~$ cat > fahmon.sh << EOF
> #!/bin/sh
> cd ~/fahmonb5/src
> ./fahmon
> EOF

Then after chmodding it with +x, it will work

The reason it broke when you just tried it, is because your hashbang line read "#!/bin/src" which doesn't exist, it should have been "#!/bin/sh". You also need the "cd ..." line too.

 

[shadowscotland]

give up - just not worth the effort - I'll stick with my link to fahlog.txt.

All I wanted was a simple answer to follow, all in one place

Edit: sorry uncle F - I'm being rude and all your trying to do is help me - It's just SO frustrating - is their no graphical interface way of doing this type of thing (typing was never my strong point)

 

[SiriusB]

cd <path to fahmon folder/src>
./fahmonb5



Far simpler than all this mucking about this lot are having you doing lol.

 

[uncle_fungus]

give up - just not worth the effort - I'll stick with my link to fahlog.txt.

All I wanted was a simple answer to follow, all in one place

Hold on there

We can get you working.

Where is fahmon "installed"?

Delete the script you've just created.

Assuming fahmon is in ~/fahmonb5/src (else change as appropriate)

Open a text editor and copy and paste this into it:

#!/bin/sh
cd ~/fahmonb5/src
./fahmon

Save the file in your home directory and call it fahmon.sh then close your text editor.

Open your filemanager and right click on fahmon.sh and give it execute permissions, but don't then move it to the desktop.

Next, right click on your desktop and make a new shortcut (or link to application, whatever your distro calls it) and for the application command, select the fahmon.sh script you just created. You can then fiddle around with the icon and the shortcut name.

After that, everything should be done, you can use the shortcut on your desktop to launch fahmon.

cd <path to fahmon folder/src>
./fahmonb5



Far simpler than all this mucking about this lot are having you doing lol.

True, but not if you want a desktop shortcut. It's fine if you want to launch it from a terminal (and you're missing a trailing "&" btw, otherwise closing the console would kill fahmon )

 

[shadowscotland]

Far simpler than all this mucking about this lot are having you doing lol.

I for one am not laughing but as long a the clients working (and it's just uploaded another WU) I'm a happy bunny

Whats with the persentage - must be something to do with the short deadline - and is this good (high being more time left) or bad (high being time used up)
[20:36:41] Unit 2 finished with 83 percent of time to deadline remaining.
[20:36:41] Updated performance fraction: 0.831669

 

[Cob]

I for one am not laughing but as long a the clients working (and it's just uploaded another WU) I'm a happy bunny

Whats with the persentage - must be something to do with the short deadline - and is this good (high being more time left) or bad (high being time used up)
[20:36:41] Unit 2 finished with 83 percent of time to deadline remaining.
[20:36:41] Updated performance fraction: 0.831669

The higher the better. The preformance fraction is your average time left before the deadline per finished WU (1.0 being when you get the WU and 0.0 being the deadline.)

 

[SiriusB]

True, but not if you want a desktop shortcut. It's fine if you want to launch it from a terminal (and you're missing a trailing "&" btw, otherwise closing the console would kill fahmon )[/QUOTE]

So...

./fahmonb5&

or is it

./fahmonb5 &

My terminal is always open so I never even realised closing it kills fahmon

 

[shadowscotland]

stephen@lemonman:~$ #!/bin/sh
stephen@lemonman:~$ cd ~/fahmonb5/src
stephen@lemonman:~/fahmonb5/src$ ./fahmon
./fahmon: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.6.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
stephen@lemonman:~/fahmonb5/src$

You had your chance UF - and I failed again (I'm guessing that I should have cut and pasted each line separatly - but that not what you said )

Anyway I'm fine really

 

[uncle_fungus]

True, but not if you want a desktop shortcut. It's fine if you want to launch it from a terminal (and you're missing a trailing "&" btw, otherwise closing the console would kill fahmon )

So...

./fahmonb5&

or is it

./fahmonb5 &

My terminal is always open so I never even realised closing it kills fahmon

It's the latter

 

[uncle_fungus]

stephen@lemonman:~$ #!/bin/sh
stephen@lemonman:~$ cd ~/fahmonb5/src
stephen@lemonman:~/fahmonb5/src$ ./fahmon
./fahmon: error while loading shared libraries: libwx_gtk2u_xrc-2.6.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
stephen@lemonman:~/fahmonb5/src$

You had your chance UF - and I failed again (I'm guessing that I should have cut and pasted each line separatly - but that not what you said )

Anyway I'm fine really

I said open a text editor

But what you just posted shows a more serious underlying problem, which explains why the bit you did further up the page didn't actually launch fahmon: You don't have wxGTK installed (which is the problem with distributing Linux binaries without giving the dependencies. If you compiled from source you would know this straight away)

 

[shadowscotland]

I said open a text editor

so you did, oops (but you didn't say how

Edit: it's just below terminal I know

But what you just posted shows a more serious underlying problem, which explains why the bit you did further up the page didn't actually launch fahmon: You don't have wxGTK installed (which is the problem with distributing Linux binaries without giving the dependencies. If you compiled from source you would know this straight away)

what that mean? and more importantly do I need to fix it

 

[SiriusB]

The problem is that for some people, myself included, FahMon simply refuses to compile. And believe me I have tried everything short of reinstalling Linux.