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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!cynjut.neonramp.com!not-for-mail From: burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Adduser: Command not found. But it's there! Date: 2 Mar 1997 13:37:37 -0600 Organization: Configuration Management Svcs, Inc. Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5fcku1$3qk$1@cynjut.neonramp.com> References: <5f1ui0$9le@lester.appstate.edu> <33148B88.249B@center.uscs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynjut.neonramp.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36400 In article <33148B88.249B@center.uscs.com>, L. Scott Emmons <scotte@center.uscs.com> wrote: >Kinney Baughman wrote: >> >> Whether the above is related or not, I don't know. But now everytime I >> try to run the "adduser" command, FreeBSD tells me the command isn't >> found. But there it is, plain as can be in "usr/sbin". Even though I'm >> sitting in the "usr/sbin" directory, I still get a "command not found" error >> message each time I issue the command. > >Probably not related. Take a look at your PATH and make sure "/usr/sbin" in >in there. If you are running as root, it is actually *good* that it doesn't >run what it finds in the current directory. This is good security, but if you >are on a guaranteed secure machine, you can add "." to the path if you so >choose, though it does expose you to a security risk, and you do so at your >own risk. At any rate, you can find out if it's in your PATH either by direct >observation (i.e. "echo $PATH"), or "which adduser". > Two obvious things to check: 1. Is it executable? 2. Does the interpreter (I'll assume perl) exist where the adduser script says it will be (like /usr/sbin/perl, or /usr/local/bin/perl5.0002) Both of these will cause this error. -- Dave Burgess (The man of a thousand E-Mail addresses) *bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom "Just because something is stupid doesn't mean there isn't someone that doesn't want to do it...."