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From: dhawk@netcom.com (David H)
Subject: Re: compiled program won't run.
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Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 16:14:50 GMT
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In article <480g7u$t2e@news.csus.edu>, WEE-KING LEONG <wleong@sfsu.edu> wrote:

>    I got the freeBSD up but I have a problem in getting something
>to work. I have written a simple program and it compile nicely with
>gcc. But when I tried to run it, I got error saying "command not
>found" Any idea what went wrong?

If you're doing this as root, note that root doesn't have "." in its
PATH.  If you compile a program, try   ./program_name   to run it.
Or create a user account and put "." in its PATH and use it for
testing.

If security is not a concern,  set path = ( $path . )
as root to add the current directory to its path and if you
install a binary somewhere type   rehash


later, david
--
David Hawkins    dhawk@netcom.com
"Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to
think, and thinking where we ought to feel."   -- John Churton Collins