you could create a script called isexecutable ... something like this: #!/bin/sh file -pb "$1" | grep -qi executable then you could find executable executables like this line: find / -perm +111 -type f -exec isexecutable '{}' \; -fprint /tmp/execlist.txt i don't think you can make isexecut...

Personally, I'd rather not entrust my personal settings and tailoring to be routinely compressed in an sfs the pup_save file is not compressed ... it is not an sfs file ... it is not a squashfs file system ... a squashfs file system is read-only, which is why Puppy needs unionfs or aufs to overlay ...

i have about 120 gigs of files in / and many of the files on my fat32 partitions have the execute bits set ... jpgs, pngs, jpgs, .txt, .avi, .mov, .mp3s etc etc and files that were copied from fat32 partitions would also have the execute bits set you could test the executable files using file to det...

glad it worked ... i wasn't at all sure it would i was not sure if /tmp even existed at that point, which is why i suggested mkdir /tmp ... to avoid extra posts if chmod alone didn't work i don't know why chmod 1777 would work if chmod 777 did not ... the 1 prevents a user from deleting another user...

you could probably pipe dd through split:

dd if=something | split -b 700M

it is situations like this that i had in mind when i was thinking about how a dotpup package should work a newbie refugee from Windows should be able to just download and click the file to install the package, similar to what he would be used to doing in Windows, without needing to understand or thi...

i have alltray 0.69 installed, which does not seem to have any gnome dependencies

though actually, it might be better to add those lines after the file system has been remounted rw, for example, just after line 61 (Puppy 216):

mkdir /tmp
chmod 1777 /tmp
#v2.11 redirect all output to a log file...

i'm not at all sure if this will work ...

you could try changing line 54 of rc.sysinit from this: echo -n "Making the filesystem usable..." to this: echo -n "Making the filesystem usable..." mkdir /tmp chmod 1777 /tmp i overlay /tmp with a tmpfs file system in rc.local, like this: mount-FULL -t tmpfs -o size=900M tmpfs /...

the confetti is probably because the video card is using shared ram, and the video drivers are letting parts of the ram that is being used by the system (for applications or buffers or caching) be simultaneously part of the video ram ... that is, the video drivers are buggy installing a video card t...

gxine used to crash if run from Firefox ... i'm not sure about Seamonkey (i usually use Firefox) ... i'm not sure which versions of Puppy this affected, i think Puppy 214 was affected i tried gxine in Puppy 216 with the Firefox library files, and it not longer seems to crash i usually don't use gxin...

gxineshell disables the screensaver (gxine should do that automatically, but for some reason the screensaver no longer was disabled ... it's possible the screensaver problem is no longer a problem)

gxineshell also pops up a message if gxine does not start because of missing codecs

having to press it 3 times i seem to remember that Xvesa does not work well with the xkb extension, and causes the caps lock and numlock keys to require 4 presses to cycle you can disable the xkb extension by adding the X option -kb ... i seem to remember that fixes the problem with 4 presses per c...

the first Linux distro i got to work with my hardware was Mandrake , about version 8.1 i learned very quickly to hate automount and learned to disable it just as quickly i also learned to avoid searching for files using Konqueror (it had a horrible memory leak and would crash my system almost every ...

personally, i prefer casual to rigidly regimented and controlled ... i would not make a good private in the army ... i see nothing really wrong with a little casual off topic conversation, if it is not carried to extremes ... but each of us has different ideas and opinions and attitudes in any case,...

i notice it says on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_Linux Puppy is based on ROX Desktop, a desktop environment. Puppy does not use the Rox desktop environment, Puppy just uses ROX-Filer as a file manager (Rox also provides the desktop wallpaper and icons, but that is not the same thing as the ROX...

a Google search for puppylinux finds http://www.puppylinux.org/ as the first hit ... at the top of the puppylinux.org page is a link to the forums other hits on the same page: puppyos.com, puppylinux.com, goosee.com, wikipedia.org, distrowatch.com, pupweb.org, desktoplinux.com, puppyos.net, ibiblio....

you could switch to an unprivileged user first, for example user "nobody", then run the server ... like this: su nobody ./abysswx or you can configure the server to run as user "nobody", then start the server with the --allow-root option, like this: ./abysswx --allow-root see: he...

to make use of the hardware acceleration of the video card, you must use the Xorg X server (not xvesa, and not Xorg with the vesa driver) and gxine or mplayer must use the xv driver (not the x11 driver) ... otherwise the cpu is doing all the work that the video card would normally do, plus the work ...

from the kernel config options in /lib/modules/:

CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=m

so the kernel probably would need to be recompiled with frame buffer support to support other vga modes