From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 1 12:48:13 2003 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 BEACD16A4CF for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 12:48:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [12.15.124.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93C8D43F93 for ; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 12:48:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from evrtwa1-ar12-4-46-162-188.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net (evrtwa1-ar12-4-46-162-188.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net [4.46.162.188]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D555C96; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 14:48:22 -0600 (CST) From: Chris To: Chris Hill , Gregory Stearns Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 14:48:19 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20031101140619.V38378-100000@frambozen.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20031101140619.V38378-100000@frambozen.monochrome.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311011448.19194.racerx@makeworld.com> cc: Free BSD Subject: Re: how do you get a script to run 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, 01 Nov 2003 20:48:13 -0000 On Saturday 01 November 2003 02:37 pm, Chris Hill wrote: > On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Gregory Stearns wrote: > > I know I am retarded, how ever I can not get the script I wrote to run > > on Free BSD 4.7. > > 1) Make sure it has execute permissions set (man chmod) > > 2) Make sure it's in a directory specified in your PATH variable. > Usually username/bin/ is a good place to put scripts. Alternatively, cd > to the directory where the script is and do a > ./myscript.sh > > HTH. Alternatively, use the explicate path with the name of the script. for example: /usr/home/mayname/scripts/scriptname > > -- > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Best regards, Chris ______________________________________________________________________ PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363 PGP Mail encouraged / preferred - keys available on common key servers ______________________________________________________________________ 01010010011000010110001101100101011100100101100000000000