From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 2 11:28:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA17860 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 11:28:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Kirk.NetUnlimited.net (Kirk.netunlimited.net [208.128.132.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA17855 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 11:28:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brownicm@netunlimited.net) Received: from malachi.my.domain (Khan-115.netunlimited.net [208.165.3.116]) by Kirk.NetUnlimited.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id OAA05629 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 14:27:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 14:26:02 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Browning To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: executable scripts Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I admit to feeling _really_ dumb asking this. After working through ppp, XWindows config, a kernel re-compile and some other stuff with no or minimal help, I can't figure out why I can't make a script executable. I use vi to create a script in a given directory, save it, chmod 755 to set permissions, I haven't changed directories, I ls -l to double-check and then type in the name of the script. I get "command not found". I've tried sh, csh and bash. I've tried different users and root. I've tried man sh, man csh, etc. I keep getting the feeling there's something just beyond my fingertips. The last time I did this was in a class about a year ago using zsh on AIX. Write the script, set the permissions and go. Please tell me what I've missed. Thanks. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Chris Browning Date: 02-Jan-99 Time: 13:54:59 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message