On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Kent West wrote:
> I'm too new at this to be much help, but I ran into similar problems
> running apps as root outside of X. A friend told me that root doesn't have
> the current directory in its path, (unlike DOS). So in order to run an app
> that is in your current directory, you have to specifiy the entire path on
> the command line. For example, if you're in /etc, and you want to run
> liloconfig, you'd have to enter /etc/liloconfig instead of just liloconfig.
> This may have some bearing on your problem.
[snip]
Instead of writing out the whole path... which could get tedious, use
./[command] :) i.e. ./liloconfig
Thats when your current directory contains the script/program in this
case, /etc.
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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