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Author: John Olson
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to prevent this aggravation in the future, add to your .bashrc file:
PATH=".:$PATH"

-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of John
Albee
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 6:32 PM
To:
Subject: RE: Help


did you have the "./" before setiathome (ex: ./setiathome )?

- John

-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Devin
Rankin
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 5:11 PM
To:
Subject: Help


I've been a member of the list for several months and I've played around
with Linix a bit longer than that. But now I'm seeing something on a
new install that I just don't understand.

I can't get a file to execute by typing its name in a Bash shell.

I have Suse 8.0 installed on a system with a 1900 XT AMD processor. I
downloaded setiathome-3.03.i686-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1.tar and then
unpacked it with a tar -xf command.
the file unpacked the executable, setiathome. But when I change to the
right subdirectory in a bash shell and type the name of the file, I get
a "bash: setiathome : command not found" .

I have done this before and and it worked fine. But not this time. I
don't understand why it is not working. What am I missing?




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