> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:19:22 -0700 (MST) > From: "Jay Contonio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Fink-beginners] Ok got >console working now this.... > > Sorry to be loading your mailboxes but this will probably be the last > question for a while. I got the exec startx working by adding > /usr/X11R6/bin to my path...weird how it wasn't working if I was in that > actual directory. >
in case this hasn't been responded to already, unless you give an absolute pathname for a command, the shell searches ONLY the directories listed in your PATH. so if you want to execute a command that's in the current directory, you have to either give the absolute pathname (something like ./command where . indicates the current directory) or put the current directory in your PATH, which you do by adding an empty entry, like a : at the beginning with nothing before it, or at the end with nothing after it, or :: in the middle somewhere. how you decide to do it of course depends on how you want the current directory to be ordered in priority relative to others. as i recall there's some security issue with having it first in the list, but i don't remember the details. hope that helps. -Tom ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
