From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 25 11: 6:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E04B814BEC for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 11:06:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from proot@iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by iaces.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA18727; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:06:21 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199910251806.NAA18727@iaces.com> Subject: Re: "Command not found" To: tMind@bigfoot.com (Tenacious) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:06:21 -0500 (CDT) Cc: ethanol@netvigator.com (Ethanol Yip), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <006501bf1f0b$766512e0$3c29a8c0@tci.rdo> from "Tenacious" at Oct 25, 1999 01:07:39 PM X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG By default "." (the directory you are currently in) is not in your $PATH. Either put "." in you $PATH, which is dangerous and insecure, or run the command as ./sysinstall or ./a.out. In a previous message, Tenacious said: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------=_NextPart_000_0060_01BF1EE9.EA37C540 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Try /stand/sysinstall > or cd /stand; ./sysinstall > ----- Original Message -----=20 > From: Ethanol Yip=20 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=20 > Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 10:45 AM > Subject: "Command not found" > > > > Dear Sir, > > I am new to FreeBSD. > =20 > During my first logon after re-installing the FreeBSD, = > I executed the command sysinstall in /stand but failed, with a message = > "command not found". Similarly, after my successful compilation of my C = > source, the same message appeared when I executed the file a.out or any = > executables created by ( cc -o executable source). > =20 > In both cases, I can "see" the executables and list = > them by ls. > =20 > Is there something wrong with the FreeBSD or my = > working environment? > =20 > Ethanol > =20 > > =20 > =20 > > ------=_NextPart_000_0060_01BF1EE9.EA37C540 > Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > http-equiv=3DContent-Type> HTML//EN"> > > > > >

Try /stand/sysinstall

or cd /stand; ./sysinstall

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= > color=3D#000000> &nb= > sp; =20 > During my first logon after re-installing the FreeBSD, I executed the = > command=20 > sysinstall in /stand but failed, with a message "command not found".=20 > Similarly, after my successful compilation of my C source, the same = > message=20 > appeared when I executed the file a.out or any executables created by = > ( cc -o=20 > executable source).

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= > color=3D#000000> &nb= > sp; =20 > In both cases, I can "see" the executables and list them by=20 > ls.

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= > color=3D#000000> &nb= > sp; =20 > Is there something wrong with the FreeBSD or my working=20 > environment?

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Ethanol

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