Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:07:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Tom Flynn <Tom.Flynn@AUC.TRW.Com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! can't downoad with anything Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970921210400.4716G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19970921234751.AAA5778@d11.auc.trw.com>
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On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Tom Flynn wrote:
> I don't Know if this is the place to write , please forward if it's
> not. I am trying to set up FreeBSD by FTP and I can't get a
> connection, I keep timing out trying to get the URL to connect. I
> have a version of 2.5.1 on CDROM and I can't seem to get much more
> than the sheel to run I have been trying to run the games as a test
> and the sheel respond that it cannot locate the file I am asking
> for.
This is a simple misconfiguration of your shell. Most shells will only
search for programs specified by their `path' variable (kind of like DOS).
Unlike DOS, the current directory is not assumed to be in the path; that
can create some security problems. So if you want to execute a program
not in your path, you must specify the path to it. So if you wanted to
run `fortune' in the /usr/games directory, you have to type:
$ /usr/games/fortune
But if it's in the current directory, you have to preface it anyway:
$ cd /usr/games
$ ./fortune
If you take a look at .cshrc, you'll see a `set path' line something like
this:
set path = (~/bin /bin /usr/{bin,games} /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin
/sbin /usr/sbin)
If /usr/games isn't in the list, just add it. (the {bin,games} notation
automatically specified /usr/bin and /usr/games.)
Why don't you try that instead of reinstalling. :-)
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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