On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 2:25 am, J Adam Latham wrote: > Hello all ... > > I'm beginning to learn C programming and recently came across an odd > occurence. > > When my system is set to boot into graphical mode (via MCC->Boot) > everything with the C programs works fine ... They compile and > execute. However, if I disable the graphical environment at boot > (i.e., boot into a shell, if that's the right terminology) the C > programs will compile w/out error, but they won't execute ... > Instead, I get the following message > > "- bash: a.out: command not found."
It sounds like you are logging in as root when not in the graphical environment. Root usually does not have the current directory in the execution path, as a security protection against trojans. ./a.out should work. A better plan would be to log in as a regular user. -- Richard Urwin
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