From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 27 23:40:19 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA01053 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 23:40:19 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA01047 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 23:40:14 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id CAA07409; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 02:38:44 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199504280638.CAA07409@hda.com> Subject: Re: help... To: barkovich@uclac2.chem.ucla.edu Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 02:38:44 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <95042720040232@uclac2.chem.ucla.edu> from "barkovich@uclac2.chem.ucla.edu" at Apr 27, 95 08:04:02 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1451 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk barkovich@uclac2.chem.ucla.edu writes: > > I am having trouble with my FreeBSD 2.0. I cannot get executables to run > properly. The only way I can get them to run is with shell (sh executable). > I am used to just typing the executable name. I thought it might be a > permission problem, but the permissions look OK to me and I'm logging in as > root. Whenever I type the executable name it just responds with "command > not found". Your executable must be in your search path. This is similar to the DOS PATH command. This is a variable in your shell and setting it up differs based on the shell you are using. If you are using csh, edit your ~/.cshrc file and find where "path" is set up and add the binary directory for X windows; I think it is /usr/X11R6/bin. > I am still trying to get X windows installed, but haven't really > tried in some time due to this problem. I tried to look at my system with > both SuperProbe and X -probeonly (I have a symbolic link to the correct file) > but when I just type them it says "X: command not found", and when I type > "sh X -probeonly" it just gives me a bunch of garbage. You are trying to execute the X server as a command file. Try setting your search path, log out and log back in, and see if things work better. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267