From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 17 19:49:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA06863 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 19:49:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mirageport.com (mirageport.com [204.134.94.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA06776 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 19:48:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cowan@mirageport.com) Received: from hercules.mirageport.com (hercules.mirageport.com [204.134.94.35]) by mirageport.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA08608; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 20:49:24 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <051b01bd3c20$0bd0df60$235e86cc@hercules.mirageport.com> From: "Cowan Bowman" To: , "Zach Bagnall" Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD not executing executables Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 20:48:16 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Zach Bagnall To: hwg-servers@hwg.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tuesday, February 17, 1998 8:39 PM Subject: FreeBSD not executing executables >Hi all, > >I have managed to install mSQL (as far as I can tell - the make, >make test, make install process worked fine), and Apache (again, >as far as I can tell). But when I come to run them, FreeBSD >gives me an 'Command not found' error. I am logged in as root and a >ls -F shows the file httpd to be executable but when I type httpd >I get 'httpd: Command not found.'. The same happens for msql, >msqladmin, msqldump, etc. > >I am new to unix but this has me at a dead end; the files are >executable, so why don't they execute? Most likely the files are not in your PATH configuration. Try typing the full path to the executable file /usr/local/bin/httpd for example. Or change directory to where the executable is and type ./httpd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message