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Date:      Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:15:30 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Justin Ashworth <ashworth@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
To:        Scott E H <scotteh@ix.netcom.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Install Q& A
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.91.960723221307.19807A-100000@fubar.cs.montana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <31F598B3.6DC1@ix.netcom.com>

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On Tue, 23 Jul 1996, Scott E H wrote:

> I've installed FreeBSD but only seem to be able to re-run the sysinstall
> with the /stand/sysinstall command. If I 'cd' into 'stand' do an 'ls' I 
> can see sysinstall but if I execute 'sysinstall' I got an error message.
> It only works if I execute '/stand/sysinstall' I am trying to figure out 
> if this is normal or if my installation has gone south. I am running
> this command from a 'bash' shell. Any help would be appreciated.

  Sounds like you've experienced something that everybody stumbles upon 
at first: '.' is left out of the root path to help protect against trojan 
horses and what not. The best way to execute a program in the current 
directory when logged in as root is './sysinstall'.

Hope that helps!

- Justin J. Ashworth
-- CS Student - Montana State University
--- Chair, Association for Computing Machinery - MSU
---- ashworth@cs.montana.edu
----- http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth




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