Subject: Re: Can we triple boot
From: Todd Sizemore (tasize0@pop.uky.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 05:52:45 MDT
I believe nothing happening and it returning you to the command prompt
is the correct response for ybin if it did its job right.
Andre wrote:
>I fixed some permissions (go figure).
>
>Now if I am USER in /usr/sbin and type ./ybin it return:
>
> ybin : /dev/hda9 : Permission denied
> ybin : /dev/nvram : Permission denied
> ybin : Warning nvram will not be updated
>
>And as ROOT it return the command line and does absolutly nothing!
>
>Andre the totaly confused newbie
>
>
>"Dr. Alfonso F. Agnew" a *crit :
>
>>Were you the root user? Some commands are only visible to the root user. What are
>>the permissions on it? Did you try the command form ./ybin while you were in
>>/usr/sbin ?
>>
>>I know these things were already brought up, but it's not clear to me what's
>>happening if you did try these things.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Alfonso
>>
>>Andre wrote:
>>
>>>Found it in /usr/sbin but boot or not I am still getting command not found.
>>>
>>>Andre
>>>
>>>John Canning a *crit :
>>>
>>>>On Thu Jun 21 20:14:48 2001 David C. Hacker, DVM wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>You have to log in as root if you want to just type ybin at any command
>>>>>prompt and get it to run. Otherwise you have to cd to the directory it is
>>>>>in and type ./ybin. I think it is in /usr/sbin. Not at my linux box now so
>>>>>don't know for sure.
>>>>>
>>>>Under Unix/Linux, you have an environment variable called PATH. This
>>>>tells your shell where to look for commands that you enter on the
>>>>command line or that are called by other shell scripts.
>>>>
>>>>When you log in as root, your PATH is set to include /sbin and /usr/sbin.
>>>>When you log in as a general user, your PATH is not set to include
>>>>these "system" directories. However, you can edit your profile (the
>>>>name of the file varies based on your shell) to set your PATH to
>>>>have different directories included in it.
>>>>
>>>>If a program is not on your path, you can change directories, as David
>>>>mentioned, or you can just enter a full path name (/usr/sbin/whatever).
>>>>
>>>>You can also set your PATH variable to look in the current directory
>>>>for a command. To do that, add either a :.: or :: to your PATH variable
>>>>(again, it depends on your shell).
>>>>
>>>>I'm old Unix person, so I live in the world of sh and ksh; since most
>>>>Linux folks use bash, I am being unspecific about the shell.
>>>>
>>>>John
>>>>
>
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