From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 19 06:11:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA32116A4CE for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 06:11:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lorna.circlesquared.com (host217-45-219-83.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.45.219.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9828843D48 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 06:11:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Received: from circlesquared.com (localhost.circlesquared.com [127.0.0.1]) i5J6D1cT065668; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:13:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Message-ID: <40D3D96D.80007@circlesquared.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 07:13:01 +0100 From: Peter Risdon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040611 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: LW Ellis References: <016701c4558b$d47b1df0$0200a8c0@LLAPTOP> In-Reply-To: <016701c4558b$d47b1df0$0200a8c0@LLAPTOP> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Seti help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 06:11:35 -0000 LW Ellis wrote: > I downloaded the setiathome package. > As far as I know everything went OK. It would have been much better to use the port, which launches you straight into registration after make install. It's almost always better to use the port if there is one. > WHen I boot the system I get a message > Run usr/local/etc/rc.d/setiathome.sh register to start seti > I tried start with that line and got command not known If you omitted the leading slash, this error is understandable. > I switched over to usr/local/sbin > setiathome start and got > usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared obj libc.so.4 not found. > I read the Seti read me > I looked in my book, and in the man pages. > There is no run command. > Start doesn't work. > Is my package installed wrong, or am I not typing the right command??? As typed above, you were not typing the right command. If your shell permits (bash et al), tab to complete each part of the path - saves time and typos. You need a leading slash: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/setiathome.sh register HTH Peter