Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 20:48:16 -0700 From: "Cowan Bowman" <cowan@mirageport.com> To: <hwg-servers@hwg.org>, "Zach Bagnall" <zachb@ihug.co.nz> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD not executing executables Message-ID: <051b01bd3c20$0bd0df60$235e86cc@hercules.mirageport.com>
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-----Original Message----- From: Zach Bagnall <zachb@ihug.co.nz> To: hwg-servers@hwg.org <hwg-servers@hwg.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG <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
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