Hi Ian, Thanks for your email. Yes, it works more or less like in DOS, but there are some differences: - most Linux systems are configured such that root (as opposed to most other users) does not by default execute files in the current directory. This is for security reasons if I'm not mistaken. This can be bypassed by typing the relative or full path to the command, such as ./eveusbc . Since that doesn't work, it is worth looking into another important difference with DOS: - Linux systems have more extensive file permissions than the original DOS system. It could be that the eveusbc file does not have "execute" permission. You can check by 'ls -l', which shows the permissions in a format such as rwxrw-r--. There are three groups, identifying permissions for owner, group and world (from left to right). Each group can have r(ead), w(rite) and execute permissions. To excluse any problems in this area, you can give all permissions to everybody by 'chmod 777 eveusbc' and then try again './eveusbc' .
By the way, 'chmod 777' is not necessarily the best way to keep a computer secure ;-) but it should help determine whether the problem is related to permissions. Peter On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 2:38:45 PM UTC+2, Ian Mellor wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > Yes I'm logged on as root but I'm in the directory where the file is. > Does this not work the same as DOS? > I tried typing ./eveusbc but I just get "No such fie or directory" > I must say I'm lost. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > > Ian > > On Sunday, 26 July 2015 09:11:10 UTC+1, Peter Baltus wrote: >> >> Try ./eveusbc >> From the prompt it seems you are logged in as root and usually root does >> not have the current directory in it's path for executing commands. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Peter > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
