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Dear Paul, Thank you so much for enlightening me. Any further questions I shall post it here again. Thanks! *Best regards,* *Isobel French* *Academic Coordinator and Research Officer* *Division of Neurosurgery* *Department of Surgery* *Faculty of Medicine* *University of Malaya* *016-7937605* *03-79493138* On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 6:00 PM, paul mccarthy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Isobel, > > In the line: > > [neuros-iMac-2:/] neuro% /etc/rc.common > > You forgot the 'more'. The 'Permission denied' message was printed because > you were trying to run the file 'rc.common' as a program. > > In general, that tutorial should be fine to follow on OSX - you just might > run into a few issues, such as this one, where files which do exist on > Unix/Linux do not exist (or are named differently) on OSX. > > Cheers, > > Paul > > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Isobel French <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> Dear Paul, >> >> This is the response I got from the terminal: >> >> [neuros-iMac-2:/] neuro% /etc/rc.common >> /etc/rc.common: Permission denied. >> [neuros-iMac-2:/] neuro% >> >> What does this mean? Thanks a bunch. And do you know where I might be >> bale to get tutorial that will be based on the OS X system instead? Thank >> you so much! >> >> >> *Best regards,* >> >> *Isobel French* >> *Academic Coordinator and Research Officer* >> *Division of Neurosurgery* >> *Department of Surgery* >> *Faculty of Medicine* >> *University of Malaya* >> *016-7937605* >> *03-79493138* >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:24 PM, paul mccarthy <[log in to unmask]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Isobel, >>> >>> It looks like the tutorial which you are following was written for a >>> Linux system. Even though OSX is also a Unix based system, it does not have >>> an identical file system structure to Linux and, in this case, there is no >>> file called '/etc/rc' on OSX. >>> >>> You should be able to continue the tutorial by replacing '/etc/rc' with >>> '/etc/rc.common' (or any other plain text file you happen to have around). >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Isobel French <[log in to unmask]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> Following the instructions on the Basic Unix Tutorial page given as >>>> prior reading before attending the course: >>>> http://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fslcourse/unix_intro/files.html >>>> >>>> When I type in 'more /etc/rc' , this is the response I get: >>>> >>>> [neuros-iMac-2:/] neuro% more /etc/rc >>>> /etc/rc: No such file or directory >>>> [neuros-iMac-2:/] neuro% ls >>>> Applications Users dev net tmp >>>> Library Volumes etc opt usr >>>> Network bin home private var >>>> System cores mach_kernel sbin >>>> [neuros-iMac-2:/] neuro% head -15 /etc/rc >>>> head: /etc/rc: No such file or directory >>>> [neuros-iMac-2:/] neuro% head -15 /etc/rc >>>> head: /etc/rc: No such file or directory >>>> [neuros-iMac-2:/] neuro% >>>> >>>> I do not understand. 'etc' is a directory listed under the home user >>>> directory, but is not seen as a directory when i type in the command 'more >>>> /etc/rc'. Could somebody help me with this? Tqvm!! >>>> >>>> >>>> *Best regards,* >>>> >>>> *Isobel French* >>>> *Academic Coordinator and Research Officer* >>>> *Division of Neurosurgery* >>>> *Department of Surgery* >>>> *Faculty of Medicine* >>>> *University of Malaya* >>>> *016-7937605* >>>> *03-79493138* >>>> >>> >>> >> >