On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 03:32:05PM +0100, James wrote:
> ok.. after reading the suggestion to install the old daemontools, I seem to
> have Qmail working when I go to the init.d directory and type ./qmail start
>
> I can't start qmail with just "qmail start".. what do I need to do to fix
> that? Though, it really isn't that important because qmail starts when I
> reboot.. but i'd like to know why I need the ./ before the executable.
This has nothing to do with qmail. If you want to run an executable in Unix,
you must supply the full path to it if it's not in your path (echo $PATH to see
what is in your path). For security reasons, which are covered in any basic
Unix book, the current directory is not in your path, so you have to supply the
path with ./ .
Chris
