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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installation problem, Can't exec as: Date: 24 Aug 1995 01:49:06 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <41glqi$7qv@reason.cdrom.com> References: <41f001$6c@buffnet2.buffnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: root@buffnet.net X-URL: news:41f001$6c@buffnet2.buffnet.net root@buffnet.net (Superuser) wrote: >I couldnt run CC or MAN withoput getting: > >cc: installation error, cant exec as: Not a directory > >Etc etc.. turns out one of the dirs in my path statement refered to a file. > >I would think and opsys would ignore it - or error message me but >continue to look at the next path in line. I thin this depends on which shell you're using. I just tried it with bash and it worked fine (put /etc/termcap first in my path). /bin/sh worked tool. I have no idea! -- Jordan