Hi

I am new to linux but here is my problem, when ever I wont to run any file that is x it always give me this message

bash: hello: command not found

[root@localhost hello]# ls -l
total 116
drwxr-xr-x 3 sulaiman users 4096 Mar 31 16:27 docs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29881 Mar 31 16:27 hello
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1206 Mar 31 16:25 main.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25104 Mar 31 16:27 main.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17218 Mar 31 16:27 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 sulaiman users 495 Mar 31 16:26 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17458 Mar 31 16:27 Makefile.in
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 31 16:25 templates

also can't run any software like java or javac or. I am logging as root

I have RH 8.0

Please any idea HELP HELP

Sulaiman

Are you trying to run X applications? If so you must be in an X environment.

try ./hello

you should add
export PATH=$PATH:.
in your profile
to make hello work without ./

No it's not an X program it's just println Hello World,

Also I am in the same directory.

And the problem with every file, like I have download the new Sun Java JDK 1.4.1 the .sh file and I have chmod 777 to it but the result is the same

look

root@localhost Java]# j2sdk-1_4-beta-linux.sh
bash: j2sdk-1_4-beta-linux.sh: command not found
[root@localhost Java]# ls -l
total 88676
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 25450562 May 30 2001 j2sdk-1_3_1-linux-i386-rpm.bin
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32276980 Apr 1 21:55 j2sdkee-1_4-beta-linux.sh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 7232715 Apr 1 22:21 jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24.tar.gz
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 175 Apr 1 22:12 jakarta-tomcat-4.1.24.tar.gz.asc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 25716356 May 6 2001 jdk-1.3.1.i386.rpm
[root@localhost Java]#

I am out of Ideas ... :-)

In that case you should follow doublefailure's advice. That should do the trick.

Notice the .

That means using this path run this application. Otherwise it will search your PATH variable and not locate the file (assuming it's not in your path) and return that error. The . overrides that and says "I am running this with absolute path":
./hello

The . means current directory. Comes in handy when copying files and things later; here's an example:
In /home/masterc/files there is a file called "LQ". I want to copy this to the directory I am in: /var/stuff/my/stuff/over/here/in/this/extremely/far/directory/i/am/in

Well to copy it you would type:
cp /home/masterc/files/LQ /var/stuff/my/over/here/in/this/extremely/far/directory/i/am/in
OR since you are already in that long directory:
cp /home/masterc/files/LQ .

Which will copy the file to the directory you are in. So run the app with . and that should fix it Just like was said above.

Cool