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A very interesting and informative narrative...from the trenches, as it were.

Thank you for sharing this 'insider' view of history with us.

So...I went to 'man prefix'; no such listing. I went to 'man tar'; never found any reference to '--prefix'. Maybe it's there, and I couldn't see it, but-I didn't.

May I subtly restate your...

So, what's the moral of this tale? By what rules does one choose a particular place to install a package? What are the constraints that need to be understood?

Help me understand this concept a little better-with a helpful analogy. I'm getting ready to help my son install a new carburetor on his CJ-7. We darned sure are gonna bolt the new one on in...

Well...that's interesting.

Having tucked the tarball away in a dedicated file within my home directory, unpacking it produced:

drwxr-xr-x 17 lowell lowell 4096 Mar 30 2005 Tools/...

I wish to upgrade my Python package (in my Mandrake 10.1) to '2.4.1' from the '2.3.4' that came with the distro.

A few niggling details have me nervous...to wit: where should I effect the new...

And, your point...?

In my 'etc/rc.d/rc.local' file I have inserted this line:

cd /home/lowell/folding@home; ./FAH504-Linux.exe &

works for me. (I am assuming-any comments here would be appreciated) that whenever...

The final solution was beyond easy, at least on my Mandrake 10.1 O/S. Down at: Mandrake Control Center>System>Date & Time, a dialog box allowed me to check a box entitled 'Enable Network Time...

Interesting comment. Forgive me for challenging it, but my motives are positive, and intentionally reveal a less than seasoned knowledge. Here is my thought...

Inasmuch as the subject of my...

That file 'ntpdate', is one of the files that was generated when I installed USNO NTP yesterday.

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1075102 May 28 11:09 ntpd*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 163446 May...

Uhm...what have I gotten myself into? :eek:

My goal was a simple periodic update query that would keep my internal (and hence, displayed) clocks more-or-less accurate. While installing, I was...

Does that mean I'm on my own?

Where is my logic falling short here...had the tar.gz file that I downloaded/installed needed such a file, would it not have made it? To put the thinking [coming] from the other direction, if I make...

I've just completed [successfully?] installing an ntp package that I got from the USNO ntp network time servers.

http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/ntp.html

I installed it in /usr/local/bin. Here is...

Your accumulated questions and comments are not, I think, something that one would respond to quickly and lightly, just for the sake of doing so.

What I have in front of me is a treasure trove of...

Here's kinda where I ended up when the dust settled. I have decided to use this script line (of my own invention):

'cd /home/lowell/folding@home; ./FAH504-Linux.exe &'

where the recommended...

I went back to /etc/rc.d/rc.local and 'opened up' your line:

su - lowell - -c "cd /home/lowell/folding@home ; ./FAH504-Linux.exe &"

then commented my version out:

#cd...

this worked (I just experimented until something showed up in 'top'):

cd /home/lowell/folding@home; ./FAH504-Linux.exe &

I had done this, and seen it work, and when I came back here to the...

This is the line as I have last modified it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local:

su - /home/lowell/folding@home -c ; ./FAH504-Linux.exe > /dev/null &

and it did...nothing (that I can see). My reference...

The results so far are coming in with mixed reviews. But I GOTTA put this to rest for now. Got homework that involves a traffic crew shutting down a major hiway at 5:30 tomorrow morning. Quickly:...

That makes sense. Thankyou.

I GOTTA put this to rest for a while. The people who pay me expect I'll have certain things ready and running at 5:30 tomorrow morning. "The dog ate my homework..."...

Here is the line as I finally settled on it (up until your last post):

cd ~/folding@home; ./FAH504-Linux.exe &

I will change to this, and try it:

su - /home/lowell/folding@home -c ;...

Well, I'm no closer to an answer than I was three days ago when I started this thread. Anybody else wanna weigh-in and offer some advice?

Actually, I had started out this thread as more a rhetorical question, having long since given up hope of running my C86 on the Linux side. But, perhaps, salvation is at hand.

I will go looking...