| 00:00.20 | byronc | no, I think it always shows the username |
| 00:00.37 | Maquis | bah |
| 00:01.26 | Maquis | i discovered a command like wall or something like that... it can be used anonymously, but then you have to have root access... |
| 00:01.52 | byronc | it's only anonymous in that it says the message is from root |
| 00:02.12 | Maquis | there was some command-line parameter that blocked that... |
| 00:02.34 | byronc | oh yeah, -n |
| 00:02.41 | Maquis | yeah |
| 00:02.49 | Maquis | but i can't get root access... :( |
| 00:05.00 | Maquis | some day |
| 00:05.01 | Maquis | ... |
| 00:05.02 | Maquis | :) |
| 00:06.43 | byronc | sometimes it's really nice not to have root |
| 00:07.15 | Maquis | why? |
| 00:08.18 | byronc | some things just aren't fun to fix |
| 00:08.28 | Maquis | like what? |
| 00:08.55 | Maquis | (i'm working on trying to learn new things about my computer and how to fix problems and such) |
| 00:09.34 | byronc | the biggest one that bugged me was trying to keep a bunch of little programs working for the one person that used them |
| 00:10.47 | byronc | sometimes it feels nice to work on a computer and know that if, say, the Xserver keeps crashing, someone else is going to fix it. |
| 00:10.58 | Maquis | true |
| 00:11.07 | byronc | they aren't necessarity hard things, sometimes you just want to work on something more fun |
| 00:11.29 | Maquis | for me, my problem is that if something starts crashing, i am stuck in the position of having to figure out _how_ to fix it... |
| 00:11.39 | Maquis | cuz i don't even know where to start half the time |
| 00:12.25 | byronc | strace and the source are your friends |
| 00:12.35 | Maquis | strace? |
| 00:13.12 | Maquis | i need to actually look through source sometimes... since i generally install from apt or rpms, i've never really sat down and looked at source for anything i use |
| 00:13.50 | byronc | strace will show you all the system call a program makes. Really nice for seeing what file it was trying to read or what operation failed. |
| 00:14.00 | Maquis | ooh! cool!!! |
| 00:14.26 | Maquis | i need to google and find a list someplacec of all the commands that do stuff like that... :) |
| 00:15.09 | byronc | you might want to try digging in /usr/man first |
| 00:15.40 | Maquis | yeah... :) |
| 00:16.12 | Maquis | man pages are good :) |
| 00:18.49 | byronc | just looking in /usr/man/man1 will give you a list of a whole bunch of commands, most are good ones to learn too |
| 00:21.08 | Maquis | cool! |
| 00:23.18 | byronc | actually, depending on your system there may be a lot in that directory |
| 00:23.46 | Maquis | it looks like i don't actually have /usr/man... but i think that has something to do with all the work i did in trying to clear out space on my hard drive |
| 00:24.02 | Maquis | unfortunately, when i partitioned this hard drive, it was my first time ever trying linux |
| 00:24.30 | Maquis | and so i only gave linux 4 gb... and so now i'm running out of space, and i can't repartition or reformat until the end of the summer |