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From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New BSD User Needs HELP!
Date: 16 Jun 1995 16:48:39 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Some time ago (16 Jun 1995 14:27:19 GMT) honorable Andy Mitchell, residing at amitchel@main.com wrote:
|installation, I installed the X11R6 and X-Windows distribution, but can't run any of the 
|programs. Everytime I try to run any program it says Command not found. Not even Root can 
|execute anything. Just the very basic Unix commands seem to be available. Totally lost!!!

Try typing the full path every time... Root has a rather strange path settings
(-: Adduser for yourself (in 2.0, do '/stand/adduser.sh -i') and try to do
something being that user (not root). To be able to gain root privileges temp-
orarely, be sure to add that new user name to the list of 'wheel' group
(see file /etc/group) and then, use 'su' command. Good luck!
	-mi
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