On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 12:28:32PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 16 January 2016 10:57:55 Curt wrote: > > > On 2016-01-16, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > >> So its full path is /home/gene/eagle-7.5.0/bin/eagle, not > > >> /bin/eagle? > > >> > > >> Lisi > > > > > > I was cd'd to /home/gene/eagle-7.5.0 and the command issued was > > > bin/eagle, which is perfectly legal syntax. > > > > Not if bin is not in your path it isn't. > > Oh? Since when? Neither is /home/gene/log, but I use that regularly in > several scrips and from the command line since I have a > user=me "tail -fn100 log/fetchmail.log" running in a console tab right
I think you'll find the 'tail' command is in your path, in this instance. > now. I long ago got sick and tired of fighting with permissions on > stuff in /var/log that I ought to be able to read. That's debatable, e.g. if I was sys admin of a multiuser system I wouldn't any Tom Dick or Harry perusing the logs. If you want to to query the logs get root to add you to the 'admin' group. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
