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- From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
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- Subject: Re: Not enough permissions for root?
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- Organization: DarkTower Software
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 09:31:18 CST
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- Rick Kelly (rmk@rmkhome.UUCP) wrote:
- (re: using ls from /usr/man/COHERENT and not being able to...)
- : I just did a cd /usr/man/COHERENT, and then an ls, and it worked.
-
- Maybe in your path the local directory is last.
-
- I had the reverse problem when I compiled a program. It was a tiny
- piece of junk so I called it "test". Big mistake. I kept running
- it and was wondering why it would do absolutely nothing. For 3 hours.
- Then I realized that there is a "/bin/test" and it was executing
- that (/bin is in my path before .). duh. I had to watch cartoons for
- 2 hours before I was stable again =Bp
-
- -Louis
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