Subj : Re: What is this .sheep/ that appeared in my home folder? To : comp.os.linux From : Ohmster Date : Mon Aug 02 2004 11:43 pm Paul Nolan wrote in news:cehib9$7af$1@s1.uklinux.net: >> Sounds like you already have electric sheep isntalled as part of the >> package, and are being prevented from overwriting the setup. >> >> Have a look at http://electricsheep.org/release_notes.html > Maybe you have the xscreensaver interface installed, but not the actual > binary (I think Mandrake does this with XMatrix, but I'm not sure). To > check, type 'which electricsheep', and if nothing is found it /should/ > be OK to just ignore the conflict (all that will be replaced is the > interface file, and rpm should make a backup - It did when I installed > the ATI libGL ages ago on my old Madrake system). > If which finds a binary, then you already have electricsheep (just > choose it in the xscreensaver-demo window) Yep yep. I used which electricsheep and did not find any. I used the force option and it went right in, smooth as silk. I wonder why the web page for the release notes tells you to use a high value for cycle time, 100 minutes like that. Does that mean that I have to see the same sheep for over an hour and a half before I can see a different sheep? I installed electric sheep on my XP machine and it works really good, new sheep to see every day. I like to have my monitor shut off after about a half hour or so but when that happens, I don't get any sheep downloaded. I had to set the the monitor power down time to a high value, like 2 hours, but now I get new sheep every day on my windows machine. Can't wait to see how this works on linux. I like that distributed computing idea, thought it was pretty neat with seti, but I really am not expecting to find any flying saucers with my home computer so the sheep thing is pretty cool. Let everybody work on making sheep and then we get to see new ones all the time. Pretty neat idea. Hmmm, only 190Mb left on my linux /home disk. Time to dump some stuff or get a larger hard drive for linux. What the heck, I have been at linux for years now, run a family server with it, might as well break down and get a larger disk for the /home directory instead of the 30Gb one that is there now. Thanks for your help guys! -- My email address is invalid, thanks to all of these rotten spambots. Email me by assembling this address: tinykitty "ay tea" newsguy "dee oh tea" com ~Ohmster .