Thanks, that fixed the problem!
At 04:17 PM 03/19/1999 -0800, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>>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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