Re: Unable to start program
Gabrie van Zanten wrote:
> Sometimes I see a program (I think) but I can't run it, even though I'm
> using root. Like this one:
> -rwxr-xr-x XF86_S3V 2043768
>
> I thought I could at least run it and get an error, but Linux says: command
> not found. I had this too when installing fortune. After logging in as a
> user I could run fortune, but not before as root (fortune was in the users
> PATH, does it matter?).
the root user does not have /usr/games (the location of 'fortune') or
"." (the current directory) in it's PATH environment variable. to use
them, you have to state the path explicitly. e.g.:
/usr/games/fortune
or
./XF86_S3V
-brad
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