From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 3 09:58:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA05134 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:58:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iglou.com (exim@iglou1.iglou.com [192.107.41.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA04691 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:57:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patrick@cre8tivegroup.com) Received: from gateway.cre8tivegroup.com [204.255.227.51] by iglou.com with esmtp (8.7.3/8.6.12) id 0xzlY4-0000R5-00; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 11:50:13 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199802031603.KAA08080@mailgw01.execpc.com> Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 11:50:45 -0500 (EST) Organization: The Creative Group From: Patrick Gardella To: Rick Verhaalen Subject: RE: can not run executables Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" Did you do a "rehash" after you installed it? The machine doesn't kow its there till it checks your PATH. On 03-Feb-98 Rick Verhaalen wrote: > I recently installed Mesa-2.5 on my FreeBSD v2.2.5 system. When I try to > run some of the executables, I get "command not found". When I do a ls -l > on the directories, it will list the program as executable. I am doing > this while logged in as root. I've encountered this problem before with > files that were installed post-FreeBSD installation. > Does it have anything to do with my umask? (which is 022)