last thing question

[GoijI P]

>or by: # cd /usr/bin # ./program-to-run
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

this is excatly what i did. i got "command not found".

>(the "./" means "run a program in the current directory").


>From: Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
>Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux 
><redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: last thing question
>Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:32:10 -0700
>
>GoijI P wrote:
>>well, since security is not an issue for my small network, i use telnet 
>>(bad as something getting used to) to connect local HostA to remote HostB. 
>>This happens after Host A is connected to Host B via telnet and after done 
>>setenv ,,, xhost + ,,,, xterm etc.
>>i cd to path that an HostB executable is and try to execute it remotely 
>>from HostA's xterm session but i get "command not found".
>
>A telnet login is NOT the same as a direct login.  If you telnet to the
>machine and log in, the path will be different than if you logged into
>the machine directly from a console and the PATH variables will be set
>differently.  In the telnet session, try "echo $PATH" and compare that
>output with "echo $PATH" from a console login.  You'll see they're
>different.  And if the program you want to run is not in the list of
>directories shown in "echo $PATH", the system can't find the program to
>run.
>
>You can get by this by, in the telnet session, running the command by
>specifying the entire path to the program:
>
>	# /usr/bin/program-to-run
>
>or by:
>	# cd /usr/bin
>	# ./program-to-run
>
>(the "./" means "run a program in the current directory").
>
>>  From Host B consol i run same command within same path , no problem.
>
>The paths are different, as I said.
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