From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 21:15:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA11012 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 21:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.montana.edu (fubar.cs.montana.edu [153.90.192.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA11003 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 21:15:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by cs.montana.edu; id AA31320; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:15:30 -0600 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 22:15:30 -0600 (MDT) From: Justin Ashworth To: Scott E H Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install Q& A In-Reply-To: <31F598B3.6DC1@ix.netcom.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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