[sage-support] Re: problem after moving sage folder

2009-03-16 Thread Stan Schymanski
Hi Jason, I wasn't aware of the "ditto" command, thanks for that! The -upgrade was a lot faster, indeed. It was done over lunch. Cheers, Stan Jason Grout wrote: > Stan Schymanski wrote: > >> Thanks for your help! >> >> cp does not have the -a option on my mac and cp -pR leads to the >> fol

[sage-support] Re: problem after moving sage folder

2009-03-16 Thread Jason Grout
Stan Schymanski wrote: > Thanks for your help! > > cp does not have the -a option on my mac and cp -pR leads to the > following error message after startup: Oh, that's right. On a mac, the "ditto" command is nice. > > "Warning: something went wrong updating the easy-install.pth file." > >

[sage-support] Re: problem after moving sage folder

2009-03-16 Thread Stan Schymanski
Thanks for your help! cp does not have the -a option on my mac and cp -pR leads to the following error message after startup: "Warning: something went wrong updating the easy-install.pth file." However, this time no other problems occurred and I was able to run the notebook server from the ne

[sage-support] Re: problem after moving sage folder

2009-03-12 Thread Jason Grout
John H Palmieri wrote: > On Mar 12, 11:38 am, mabshoff dortmund.de> wrote: >> Never us cp to copy Sage unless you know what you are doing, but use >> tar. > > Hm. I've never had any problems using cp; in fact I routinely do it > before running 'sage -upgrade'. Does 'cp -pR' count as "knowing wh

[sage-support] Re: problem after moving sage folder

2009-03-12 Thread John H Palmieri
On Mar 12, 11:38 am, mabshoff wrote: > > Never us cp to copy Sage unless you know what you are doing, but use > tar. Hm. I've never had any problems using cp; in fact I routinely do it before running 'sage -upgrade'. Does 'cp -pR' count as "knowing what I'm doing"? John --~--~-~--~-

[sage-support] Re: problem after moving sage folder

2009-03-12 Thread mabshoff
On Mar 12, 7:17 am, Stan Schymanski wrote: > Dear all, Hi, > I had a great idea (so I thought) about upgrading in the background > while the sage server is still running. Here is what I did, but it > didn't work for some reason: In OS X 10.4, I shut down the server > briefly, changed into the