David R. Litwin wrote:
> Allow me to go in to this one by one. Firslty, Boinc.
> 
> Alright. Here is what I did.
> 
> # cd /home/david/BOINC
> # gunzip boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu.gz
> # chmod a+x boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu
> # boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu -attach_project 
> http://setiathome.berkeley.edu b151599a701963ef98f16ac804e1b9ee
> bash: boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu: command not found
> 
> It does not need to be tarred, the installation file is
> boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu.gz
> <http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_4.19_i686-pc-linux-gnu.gz>. What did
> I do wrong?

Add a ./ infront of the filename.  As a security precaution, *nix
systems don't check the current directory as part of the PATH.  You
need to explicitly add it (bad idea) if you always want to be able
to execute a file that is in your current working directory.

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr

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