On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:22, Glenn wrote: > Please pardon what is probably a FAQ, but I've been running Mandrake 8.2 > for all of about 10 hours or so, and my *nix experience is purely as a > command line user about 8 years ago on a dumb terminal. Can anybody point > me to a "dummy's guide to distributed net client installation". > > I gather I'm supposed to go to a command line where I am to type "dnetc > -install" (to run it as a hidden service). I walk my way down to the dnetc > directory, which contains my client files, in the Konsole. An "ls" confirms > that the executable is there. However, when I type the command, I get a > "command not found" error. Anything in here sound like a > newbie-knucklehead trick? > > Glenn
I'll give it a crack Glenn. To make an executable run you need to check the user has permission to run it like so. $ cd dnetc $ ls -l A short example from my home directory. [michael@tirnanog michael]$ ls -l -rwx------ 1 michael michael 121 Jun 3 22:42 freeciv* -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael michael 812 Jun 19 11:49 log.txt See the x in the permissions of the file freeciv (and not for log.txt). $ man chmod for details of how to set this. The current directory (folder if you are still thinking in Windows speak) is not in the path statement for security reasons. $ echo $PATH So to run an executable use: $ ./program The dot (.) represents the current directory (not a nipple). The slash (/) specifies inside the aforementioned directory. And program is the name of the executable. Thus for my freeciv example above: $ ./freeciv would run it. Hope that helps. -- Michael
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