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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Cannot run commands Post 302174855 by ShawnMilo on Wednesday 12th of March 2008 10:16:29 AM
Old 03-12-2008
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Originally Posted by BigTool4u2
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
Please re-read my last post. I wasn't talking about creating symlinks. Just add aliases to your environment in your .rc file, or see andryk's suggestion about modifying your path, which you can also add to your .rc file (.bashrc or similar).

I don't think it's a good idea to arbitrarily add symlinks into system directories, such as /usr/local/bin, but I could be wrong.

ShawnMilo
 

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