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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Cannot run commands Post 302174742 by BigTool4u2 on Wednesday 12th of March 2008 02:41:18 AM
Old 03-12-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by ShawnMilo
Root has things in its path that the normal user doesn't. So, as root, if you can run a program named sysdef, run this command: which sysdef

The response will be something like: /sbin/sysdef

If the application truly doesn't require root permissions, then you should be able to run it as a regular user by typing in the full path: /sbin/sysdef

If this works, you can alias the command: alias sysdef="/sbin/sysdef"

You should then be able to run it by just typing the name. If that works, you could consider adding that alias command to your ~/.bashrc (for bash -- research the proper location for other shells), for your convenience.

ShawnMilo
ShawnMilo, thanks for your input.

Under the normal user account I did the 'which sysdef' and I got the output 'no sysdef in /usr/bin /usr/openwin/bin /usr/ucb'. So I ran the same command as root and I got '/usr/bin/sysdef'. From my understanding of that it's is showing me that the sysdef files are located in the /usr/bin. What I attempted to do next was to create a soft link between the sysdef in the /usr/bin to the /usr/bin/local; I found out that the sysdef files are not in there. The command I used for that is "ln -s /usr/sbin/sysdef /usr/local/bin/sysdef". Had a look in the /usr/bin/local and the sysdef was there. Tried to run the sysdef command as the normal user and still got nothing 'command not found'. Have I attempted to go about this the wrong way. My knowledge of Unix is very rudimentary so if someone could point out where I am going wrong I would be more than grateful.

Rgds,
Everett
 

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