From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 10 16:38:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sail.wantabe.com (portal.wantabe.com [209.16.44.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D3B14FA7 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:37:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeffrl@wantabe.com) Received: from sail.wantabe.com (jeffrl@sail.wantabe.com [209.16.8.1]) by sail.wantabe.com (8.8.5/8.7.1) with ESMTP id SAA21774 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:37:37 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:37:36 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeffrey J. Libman" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: re: most programs fail to run after initial install of 3.1 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i am fairly new to freebsd, though i have used unix for over 15 years, and bsdi for the last 4. i hope this is the right list for this....if it belongs on newbies...please forgive and instruct. :-) after installing freebsd 3.1 from the cd's i received from walnut cdrom, i had to use disklable to add bootblocks. once this was done, i rebooted from the hard drive, and she came up just fine...networked and all. now, most programs/commands fail. a couple of examples: $ ps GLFFregBSD: not found : not found ps: 3: Syntax error: "(" unexpected $ tr tr: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected what is going on? thanks in advance. cheers, jeff | |\ +------------------------------+ Jeffrey J. Libman, ops. mgr. | \ | Wantabe Internet Services | Wantabe, Inc. |__\ +------------------------------+ jeffrl@wantabe.com <-----|------> | access web cgi ftp news mail | (281) 493-0718 __,.-=\'`^`'~=-../__,.-= +------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message