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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uchinews!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.bu.edu!mi 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 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3rscl7$a6a@news.bu.edu> References: <3rs4c7$9ga@spectre.star.harc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: csb.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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 -- The following two lines are NOT related to each other! (-: "When in doubt, let your horse do the thinking." "Computer hackers do it all night long..."