>From this description, I can only guess. My immediate thought is that
fortune is not in the default execution path.
Does "which fortune" find the executable? Alternately, can you run fortune
by specifying its full path name (on my system, that's /usr/games/fortune,
but your setup may be different)?
IF the answers are no and yes respectively, thenyou need either to add
fortune's directory to the PATH env variable (you can do this in
/etc/profile if you use bash) or to mv (or symlink) fortune to a directory
in your path (the natural candidate is /usr/local/bin).
If that's not it ... afraid I can't offer any other guesses based on what
you've reported to us.
At 04:55 PM 3/19/99 -0700, John Johnson II wrote:
>This question is not just about fortune -- the fortune cookie program. I
>think this problem may happen in other places also. Anyway I just installed
>fortune on my Linux (RH 5.1) system and I can't get the program to execute.
>(not even when logged on as root) the all users have execution rights for
>the file, so what gives?
>
>John (new and confused) Johnson II
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