From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 3 11:22:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16450 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 11:22:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netmug.org (perl@netmug.org [207.88.43.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16445 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 11:22:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perl@netmug.org) Received: from localhost (perl@localhost) by netmug.org (8.8.8/NetMUG_1.0.0) with SMTP id LAA27889; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 11:22:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 11:22:11 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Haro To: Rick Verhaalen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can not run executables In-Reply-To: <199802031603.KAA08080@mailgw01.execpc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, 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. The executable is probably not in your path. You can execute it by typing ./executable or by adding the path the executable is in to your PATH environment variable. Michael